Really new

(really I don't want it cancelled!)

Really new

I enjoy having New Years Day off work every year…I really do. And the college bowl games are an awesome way to spend any day. But deep down I find the concept of celebrating the day kind of odd.  I mean, it’s just the first day of a month; another time to turn the page on the wall calendar (does anyone have wall calendars anymore?)  But we ascribe a deeper meaning to this date because we feel like we have the chance to create a clean slate or a do-over. January becomes a time to both mess up the date on checks and to plot a new and hopefully better course for the future.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17

Trying to do more positive things and less negative things is always admirable.  But nothing we do changes the fact that we remain human; simultaneously filled with both good intentions and weighed down by sinful hearts.   The only new beginning that truly gets at our core is a deep and abiding faith in Jesus as Savior.  That faith, that being “in Christ” as Paul says, allows us to approach the New Year as a new creation.  If you have this faith, embrace it all over again. If you don’t, let this be the year you make the most important decision of your life.

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 46