"Reader! If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus, you will enter upon a new stage of your journey by a renewed surrender of yourself to the Lord. You will make the cross the starting-point of a fresh setting-out in the heavenly race. Oh, commence this year with a renewed application to the “blood of sprinkling.” There is vitality in that blood; and its fresh sprinkling on your conscience will be as a new impartation of spiritual life to your soul. Oh, to begin the year with a broken heart for sin, beneath the cross of Immanuel! Looking through that cross to the heart of a loving, forgiving Father. Do not be anxious about the future; all that future God has provided for,“Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” Let it be a year of more spiritual advance, forward in the path of duty; forward in the path of suffering; forward in the path of conflict; forward in the path of labor; and forward in the path to eternal rest and glory. Soon will that rest be reached, and that glory appear.
"This new year may be the jubilant year of your soul, the year of your release. Oh spirit-stirring, ecstatic thought: this year I may be in heaven!"
Octavius Winslow