Well here we are in the New Year
once again, all sparkly and fresh like a new snow fall ready for us to make
foot prints in. I'm glad it's here, but I'm really not much for New Year
celebrations. This year I had a hard day at work and was fast asleep in bed by
9:30 p.m. So, the New Year came in the old one ended and I missed it, but it
really didn't need my awareness to happen anyway. After all, men set the date
of the year, but God created the world, makes the days and that never changes.
How are you looking at the New
Year? Myself, I'm looking at it with hope! Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 about folks who have no hope and I
afraid that includes far too many in or world. Hope of what? Hope of eternal
life, hope of a better life now, not based upon what we do necessarily, but
based upon our relationship to Christ.
I love the line from Anne of
Green Gables where she says, “Each day is fresh and brand new with no
mistakes”. That of course is true, but it usually doesn't stay that way very
long, simply because we are human and mess up far too often, (1 John 1:10).
I love what Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:3, that “God has begotten
us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”.
Wow! “a lively hope”… in the Greek that means “Not lifeless, not
dead, but vital and strong”. (Strong's)
How is you hope and what are
hoping in? I saw a sign the other day that said, “Life is full of choices, the
problem is that sometimes we make stupid choices!” Some times I make stupid
choices, but not when I choose to hope in Christ, to hope for eternal life, to
hope of a better life here in this world because of my hope and trust in Christ
Jesus.
There is an old hymn that
declares, “My hope is built on nothing less that Jesus' blood and
righteousness.” I hope you can can sing this song with all of your heart.
