This is always such a great time of the year for me. I don’t mean to brag or be self indulgent, I’m just trying to make a point, so go with me here. The end of December into the beginning of January is one of my favorite times of the year. I walk around with a little jump in my step, I feel inspired, excited, expectant. Some might say its because I’m naïve enough to buy into this ‘fresh start’ idea that’s so popular around New Years time, and that might be true. But whether if you take this idea seriously or not, that’s exactly what the New Year is, a new start. The coming of the New Year is a chance to turn the clocks back and start things off clean again, to look off into the coming year with expectations and the hope of greatness.
As with most things in life, the attitude surrounding the New Year can, in fact, teach us a lot about our life with Christ. Scripture clearly states that with God, His mercies are new every morning. The beautiful reality of the life lived by the grace of God is that everyday is a fresh start. It does not matter what we did yesterday because with Christ, everyday we can look forward with expectations and the hope of greatness. We need not wait until December 31st to make a list of all the changes we wish to make, all the bad habits we wish to leave behind; we can give that list to Christ every morning and his grace is sufficient to wash it away and give us that fresh start we’ve been looking for.
Accept the gift of a new start not just on January 1st every year, but every single day that we wake up with God’s promise of new mercy, and a fresh start.
-jon
As with most things in life, the attitude surrounding the New Year can, in fact, teach us a lot about our life with Christ. Scripture clearly states that with God, His mercies are new every morning. The beautiful reality of the life lived by the grace of God is that everyday is a fresh start. It does not matter what we did yesterday because with Christ, everyday we can look forward with expectations and the hope of greatness. We need not wait until December 31st to make a list of all the changes we wish to make, all the bad habits we wish to leave behind; we can give that list to Christ every morning and his grace is sufficient to wash it away and give us that fresh start we’ve been looking for.
Accept the gift of a new start not just on January 1st every year, but every single day that we wake up with God’s promise of new mercy, and a fresh start.
-jon
