January 2, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, January 2, 2025.
The Daily Devotions are back after a holiday-week break. Hope you and yours had a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year’s. This morning we begin the sixth year of sending out these little thoughts. Some of you have been with us since the beginning, right after the Covid shutdown in March of 2020. Most of you have joined us along the way. Some of you are on our email list. Most of you follow the devotions on the Shelby County Today website. I appreciate each one of our faithful readers, and pray that these daily connections will continue to be a blessing to you in 2025.
On January 2, 1962, four scruffy looking young musicians arrived at a recording studio. They were there for an audition and were hoping to get their first record deal. The audition ended with no comment from the record company executive. Several weeks passed with no word. Finally, the group’s manager called the studio and received a response, a response that has become the most infamous, short-sighted, wrong-headed evaluation in music history. The executive told the manager, “your boys will never make it in show business”.
Those boys, “The Beatles”, got their record deal later that year from another company, recorded a hit song, and never looked back. They became the most successful group in entertainment history, selling over 600 million records, and influencing every popular musician who came after them. The boys did okay in show business after all! And that record executive had to live the rest of his life with the knowledge that the future of music had played in his studio . . . and he failed to recognize it.
In Isaiah 43:19, God says, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?” As we read this familiar passage at the start of a new year, it’s a reminder that God wants to do a new work in our lives. But we’re also reminded that we have a part to play as well. Our part is to see what God is doing, to perceive it, to recognize it. And then to move in the direction that He is moving.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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