Making things right in 2014
Happy New year to you all.
Millions of people the world over use New Years Eve as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean of the mistakes and difficulties of the outgoing year while hoping that the coming year will be better. There is something deep within us that needs to make things right while hoping and praying that as it often says on school reports, “must do better”. Although the practise is declining some people still make New Year’s resolutions.
For the person who has made the decision to have Jesus in their life this is not just an annual occurrence but a daily one. There is a song that says, “new every morning it’s new, the love of God for you is wonderfully new”. I don’t have to build up a years worth of mistakes before they can be wiped clean, God offers to do that for me on a daily basis. It is because of His great love for me that He also promises and advises on how to get through each day too. Read these words and maybe you will join me in making a New Day’s resolution to let God help and guide so that we can really have a happy new year.
Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, his choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this, and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:3-11
