as a

you know,

and As 2024 comes to a close, maybe you're beginning to reflect on the successes and disappointments of the last 12 months, trying to determine if you had a good year or not.

Did the joys outweigh the sorrows?

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg considers how two simple words,

but God,

can completely change our perspective on the past

and on what lies ahead.

I find myself coming to the end of the years saying,

How should I think properly about the new year?

Not just today or last night, although definitely about last night and today,

but how should I think? And the answer, of course,

is that I should think Christianly. I should think about everything as a Christian thinks,

because, like many of you, I have affirmed the truths that we have said this morning,

both in the creed and then secondly in the catechism. And I recognize also, as do you, that the things that we think about and

the things that we believe matter entirely. In his book, Spiritual Depression, its causes Cure, Martin Lloyd-Jones, who was first a medical

doctor and then a theologian and a pastor, encourages the readers of that book to talk to themselves.

And this is what he says. Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the

fact that you're listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself? It's a very helpful book.

It talks about how when you wake up in the morning, where do those thoughts come from?

You didn't induce them, but they are there. And he says, if you're going

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