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New year, fresh start
It’s that time of year again! The beginning of a new year, also known as New Year, New You! We hear it all the time, and we often make those famous New Year Resolutions that can leave us feeling like a failure if we do not stick to them. We set expectations of the new year as we go into uncharted waters, not knowing what the next year will bring but hoping for the best. I have heard the definition of resolutions as: an admission that we have failed, and a resolution is an expression of a desire to change. The reality is it has been found that 90% of resolutions fail in the first month. The new year has us looking for new beginnings, a new you, new goals, new life, new jobs, new friends, the list goes on. With the new year we look forward to a clean slate, a starting over with positive change, which is probably why there are more marriage proposals on New Years Eve and Day than any other day of the year. What we often fail to realize is, God says He makes all things new, not us. Revelations 21:5 “I am making all things new”. If we surrender ourselves to Him, He will make us new. We can’t just jump in a phone booth like Clark Kent does and come out like a Super Christian.
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Phil. 3:13 ”Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But
one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,“ Philippians 3:13 NIV Look forward and not behind as Paul speaks about in this scripture. Paul was a man that had a horrible past, until he had an encounter with God. Don’t be looking back at your failures and disappointments. Don’t let your past define who you are! You need to keep looking forward and get into His Word and find out who the Bible says you are. ”“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.“ Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
