Summary: This will be the best year of your life if it's the best year of your life spiritually. The best year of your life spiritually won't just happen accidentally. Isaiah 40:3-4 3 Listen! It's the voice of someone shouting, "Clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! 4 Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills. Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places." "Your dejections and despondencies are the valleys that must be exalted." - Matthew Henry Isaiah 2:12-14 12 "For the Lord of Heaven's Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted. 13 He will cut down the tall cedars of Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of Bashan. 14 He will level all the mountains and all the lofty hills." "As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course, as long as you're looking down you cannot see something that is above you." - C.S. Lewis Proverbs 14:12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. Where in my life do I have no peace? Isaiah 40:1 "Comfort, comfort My people," says your God. Hebrews 2:16-18 16 We also know that the Son did not come to help angels, He came to help the descendants of Abraham. 17 Therefore, it was necessary for Him to be made in every respect like us, His brothers and sisters, so that He could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then He could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people. 18 Since He Himself has gone through suffering and testing, He is able to help us when we are being tested.
