Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!
A new year is an opportunity to make ourselves ‘new
and improved’. I read yesterday that this doesn’t really work, if it’s new it is
not an improved version and if it is improved then it cannot be new. Whatever!
I suspect we could all be improved and I absolutely admit I am not ‘new’ and I
could do with some improvement.
Many people have stopped making resolutions at New
Year, (I am one of them) because they don’t see the point. However, I do start
each year with a promise to myself to try harder to be a better person than I
was last year, although the trials of the past two years make it hard because
it just seems to be more of the same every day. The answer is prayer, prayer,
prayer!
The only way I can think of to improve myself, is
to put myself into the hands of the one who made us and ask Him to make the
improvements needed to live in Him, I have too many faults to hope to succeed
on my own. What about you? Can you do it on your own?
Jesus died for all of us to have the opportunity to
become new creations, alive in His spirit. If we don’t at least ask Him to help
us, He will have made the sacrifice in vain.
We need to slough off the sin which confines us to
this world’s old life, so that we can become new people ready for the eternal
life that Christ has made possible for us.
My resolutions usually fail because I don’t have
the will power to discipline myself, this is why I need the help of Jesus. We
all do, even those who do have will power, I admire you for it.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, we have just entered a new year and
come before You, knowing that, with Your help, we can be better than we have
been in the past. Just as You prayed constantly to our Father, help us to do
likewise. We know that only by constant dialogue with God can we hope to follow
the path You have set before us. We come to You as The Son of God and our
Saviour. Amen.
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