What do you look forward to the most with the coming New Year?
Do you ever make resolutions? Do you typically accomplish your resolutions?
For me, I look most forward to the promise of renewal and growth, the promise of Spring.
There’s something hopeful and exciting about the anticipated coming season of Spring.
As we enter a new year and reflect on the year that has just passed, I can’t help but think about all the references in the Bible where people and things are “being made new” or “are made a new creation”.
There are also passages where we can see that “ALL will be made new” FOREVER!!
We can read about this in Revelation 21:4:
“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Never again will sin come for us to steal, kill, and destroy!
So, regardless of our mindset going into the new year; whether we embrace the coming year or if we reluctantly enter it is new.
The truth never changes!
One day if we are in Christ and know Him personally, ALL WILL BE MADE NEW!
One day eternity comes for us all, and so we can have this Hope in Jesus our One & Only Christ!
No matter what we are facing, we can choose to put on the mind of Christ and set our face as flint towards eternity.
May it govern what is important to us in this life on earth.
And may this mindset draw others to Jesus as our season in time is drawing to an end.
One of my favorite verses that discusses something new is found in Lamentations 3:22-23:
“Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”
This gives us such encouragement!
I am so grateful that we have a Savior who never runs out of mercy and compassion.
I am grateful that He remembers my frame and that I am but a finite being created in His image.
And when I am feeling defeated and exhausted from trying in my own strength, I go to Galatians 2:20:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
May we embrace the New Year.
We get to choose to put on the “Mind of Christ.”
May we rest in His Work.
May we choose to reflect on God’s word and purpose to live it out!
Prayer: Lord, do the work that only you can do in me! Govern my thoughts and actions in 2024. May my heart be hungry for Your Word this year. In Jesus’ name-Amen.
Blessings!
Crystal Hippo