If you’re joining us in the Joshua – Esther reading plan, you’ll see that Joshua starts with a bang:

Moses my servant is dead. (Joshua 1.2, ESV)

How encouraging is that!? Oh wait, there’s more:

Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. (Joshua 1.2, ESV)

Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go…

I don’t know what your last year was like. Whether you experienced a devastating loss or not. But God’s word is clear. Arise. Go.

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3.13, 14, ESV)

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43.18, 19, ESV)