I love New Year's Day: sleeping in late, college football all day long...wait, that sounds like pretty much every Saturday in the fall... I guess the real reason that I love New Year's Day is the fresh start: new calendar, new tax year, new resolutions, etc. Now that I'm out of school, my year no longer revolves around a semester calendar. January 1st is the starting point of my internal calendar--a clean slate. It's a fresh feeling that I wish I could take enjoy every day of the year.
When it comes to the spiritual part of my life--the most important part--it is possible to experience the fresh feeling of a clean slate every day. My sins and failures don't begin to pile up on January 1st and finally get erased the following December 31st. No, every day--every moment--I can experience the fresh start of a new spiritual year thanks to God's forgiveness. Because every day is January 1st in Christ, there's no need for clever spiritual resolutions at the start of a new calendar year. The only resolution I need is to live every day in the light of newness that God so graciously provides.
Lamentations 3:22-24
Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
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Amen bro! I agree with the everyday clean slate idea. there's no diff. between dec31 and 1 Jan!
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