Well, it's almost the end of another year, and I can hardly believe that today is actually the last day of things unseen.

So I want to say thank you to the Ligonier staff who have made things unseen possible for

us and I want to thank you also for the privilege of being with you over these weeks and

months as we've tried to reflect together on all kinds of different themes related to our

Christian lives.

Over the past year, we've thought about some doctrinal and theological themes, and we've

thought about some pastoral themes, and we've thought about some personal themes.

And I'm sure not all podcasts are equal.

They're not all equally well done, but also because we're wired differently and we're

in different places and stages in our spiritual

experience, some of these themes will have been more helpful to us than others, and that's

true of me too.

But what we share in common is that very soon will be in a new year, and at least from our human point of view, the

old year will have gone forever.

And that's quite a thought, isn't it?

Gone forever.

It really underlines the importance of putting into practice Paul's encouragement in Ephesians

5 verse 16, to redeem the time, or as the English

standard version translates it, to make the best of the time.

One of my earliest memories of New Year's Eve is of my parents telling me to go into

the bedroom and to decide on 10 New Year's Eve is of my parents telling me to go into the bedroom and to decide on 10 New Year

resolutions.

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