Thank you. If you're in the practice of making New Year's resolutions, you probably focus on self-improvement goals, losing weight, exercising more, getting more organized, or learning a new skill.

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg rounds out the year by drawing our focus away from ourselves and pointing us instead

to God's glory.

I don't want this morning to try and expound a passage of Scripture, although I hope that everything that is said is within the framework of Scripture,

but I want us to recognize together that we set out on this journey, on those of us who were present on the first Sunday of the year,

thinking about how important

it is to think Christianly. And we said that to think Christianly is not simply to think about

Christian things, but it is to allow the Bible to be what the Bible is, a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, and so for the

scriptures to be the framework in which we consider absolutely everything, the considerations of

life and marriage and rest and relaxation and science and art and whatever it might be. Because it is in the Bible that we

discover not only who God is, but also who we are and why it is that we need a Savior.

Now, as I say, I want to reflect on this a little bit and to remind you, I hope that this only

triggers in your mind happy remembrances, but we began on the back of that statement on

that first Sunday by reading together and considering the 139th Psalm. And in the reading of the

139th Sam, we saw that that Sam challenges a kind of view of the

world, which is part and parcel of everyday life, as we simply move amongst our friends and our

colleagues, and as we're also tempted ourselves to view the

world as if we were the center of the universe, to think that somehow or another it all begins with me,

that my orientation is, first of all, around myself. And the psalmist disavowed us of that very quickly. We saw that God knows

all about me, that God is with me, that God has made me, and that God judges righteously.

Now, the reason that we study the Bible in that way is so that we might

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