"The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it" [Proverbs 10:22]

How Blessed is the Christian! "Blessed with ALL Spiritual Blessings, in Heavenly places in Christ" [Ephesians 1:3].

David was a mightly Blessed man of God, but there came a time when he ended up in a Slippery place and ended up saying ...

"I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel" [Psalm 31:12].

But, when upon the Lords gracious and yet firm and unbending correction he went on to say  ...

....... "But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God" [Psalm 31:14].

Trust in the Lord like David, if slipperiness has brought any brokenness in 2025; In this new year like Abraham, have a living "hope against hope" (Romans 4:18) and be like David who "encouraged himself in the Lord" and "recovered all" [1 Samuel 30:6,8,18]. 

Asaph Awakens.

"Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction" [Psalm 73:18]. He sees the sad end of those who don't pull up on the slippery descent.

Asaph realised 3 vital realities in relation to his original awakening (Verse 22) and a further 3 realities of great Blessing in his recovery, as in the following verses.

"Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee" [Psalm 73:23-25].

1). The Lord had tracked him through all his disasterous turns, and was in mercy 'holding' on to him!

2). Experiencing such grace and love, Asaph knew to keep a very continuous eye on the counsel of the Word of God in everything and Knew the certainity, that it will Lead to Glory!

3). What Incomparable Greatness exists in Heaven? The vast Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As such powerful glory is revealed, we read that, "the Earth and Heaven fled away and there was found no place for them".[Revelation 20:11].

Asaph further realises that if Heaven, in all of it's vast measure is filled with the Glory of the Lord, then there is nothing else to compare with that on Earth to pursue.

God always has the last say, how far iniquity goes and even in cases where serious destruction, brokeness and tears are reaped in the life of a believer; still the Lord has an answer to the most ruined.

Just as He said to Israel ..... "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help" [Hosea 13:9].

We are in the last limited evil throws before the Church is "caught up to meet the Lord of Glory in the air, and so shall we be ever with the Lord"; After which, the world under the complete domination of Chief Slippery (Satan) is consumed by Great Tribulation of nature gone rogue.

Then God's wrath judgments and the Devils wrath (Revelation 12:12) form a cocktail on Earth, that is so desperate, that "men will seek death and shall not find it" [Revelation 9:6].

In The Meantime - This Year.

"Rejoice in the Lord alway (as Paul said) and again I say, Rejoice" [Philippians 4:4].

Knowing Jesus more through this New Year and on, will mean Wisdom, Life and much Blessing.