现今来到了正处在艰难又具有挑战的年末，这一年新冠流行病毒带来了不稳定的宗教、政治形势，自然灾害等等问题。尽管充满了挑战，但我们应该有信心面对新的一年。

在1900年1月3日，怀爱伦住在澳大利亚时，曾写信给西斯利兄弟和姐妹：“亲爱的西斯利弟兄和姐妹：我今天早上祝你们新年快乐。又一年带着其沉重的记录进入永恒了。我们不知道那个记录怎样，也不能知道，直到审判的时候。然而新的一年开始了，我想要把自己重新献给上帝，心灵、身体、感情与力量都献上。新的一页翻开了。这新的一年将有怎样的记录呢？它在世界历史中的启示将会怎样呢？它在我们个人历史中的启示将会怎样呢？”

虽然我们无法预测明年会发生什么，但我们可以把控我们个人的历史。

有种方法就是献上自己“将心灵、身体、感情与力量重新归于上帝。”如此行，我们选择顺从圣经的命令“尽心、尽性、尽意、尽力” 爱上帝，这记录在申命记6:4-5和马可福音12:30，31节继续说：“第一要紧的就是……其次就是说：‘要爱人如己。’”

这个命令今天仍与我们息息相关。“爱人如己”的意思是什么呢？

这一定会让我们想起好撒玛利亚人帮助需要之人的故事。像撒玛利亚人，我们应该帮助减轻周围那些受折磨之人的痛苦，而且我们被呼召要做得更多。在《评论与通讯》1884年2月5日，怀爱伦写道：“亲爱的弟兄姐妹们，当你们被福音的灵所感染，当你们学会爱人如己时，当你们看见周围有生灵正走向灭亡，却不尽力去救他们，你们是不会满足的。”

可是我们无法靠着自己做成。在撒迦利亚书4:6万军之耶和华说：不是倚靠势力，不是倚靠才能，乃是倚靠我的灵方能成事。

在非常的时代下，愿我们向邻舍表显上帝的爱，借着宣扬上帝对世界最后爱的信息——三天使的信息——宣扬永远的福音，敬拜创造主上帝，意识到审判的时候已经来到了。愿我们受上帝的印记而非是兽的印记。

It’s the end of another difficult year brought about by the COVID pandemic, unstable religious and political situations, natural disasters, and many more. As challenging as it has been, it’s good to reflect on ways we can face this new year with confidence.

On January 3, 1900, Ellen White wrote a letter to Brother and Sister Sisley in Australia: ‌‌”I greet you this morning with a ‘Happy New Year.’ Another year, with its burden of record, has passed into eternity. We know not what that record is, and cannot know till the judgement. But a new year has commenced, and I feel like dedicating myself anew to God—soul, body, heart, and strength. A new page is turned. What shall be the record of this new year? What shall be its revelations in the history of the world? What shall be its revelation in our individual history?‌‌” (Lt2, 1900)

While we can’t predict what will happen this coming year, we can control our individual history.

One way is by dedicating ourselves ‌‌”anew to God—soul, body, heart, and strength.‌‌” By doing so, we choose to follow the biblical commandment to love God ‌‌”with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength‌‌,” as recorded in Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Mark 12:30. Verse 31 continues, ‌‌”This is the first commandment, and the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’‌‌”

This command is still relevant for us today. But what does it mean to “love your neighbour as yourself‌‌”?

It reminds us of the story of the good Samaritan who helped the man in need. Like him, we should also help relieve the suffering of the people around us. But we are called to do more. Ellen White wrote in the Review and Heard, February 5, 1884: ‌‌”Dear brethren and sisters, when you become imbued with the missionary spirit, when you learn to love your neighbors as yourself, you will not be content to see souls perishing all around you without doing all you can to save them.‌‌”

But we can’t do this by ourselves. Zechariah 4:6 says, ‌‌”Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.‌‌”

For such a time as this, let us show love to our neighbours by proclaiming God’s final messages of love to the world—the three angels’ messages—proclaiming the everlasting gospel, worshipping God as our Creator, and recognizing that the time of His judgement has come. And let us receive the seal of God rather than the mark of the beast.