New Years Day is a celebration of the ‘new’. A new year brings freshness and often represents a new chapter of life or a clean slate. It’s amazing the impact this day has on humanity when it merely is another day.
Humanity loves the ‘new’. We get tired of the old, regular and mundane. Western commercialisation is the most extreme example of humanity’s obsession with the new.
The new year is also a ‘sand in the line’ moment for many in that it marks a change, whether large or small, in one’s life. Many people will start off the new year making a list of resolutions that they aim to keep.
The New Year moment in Sydney
The most fascinating ‘new’ experience is to come to know Christ. Not only does it mark the beginning of an amazing relationship with the creator of the world, but also a new life as you are ‘born again’.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
While the ‘born again’ Christian has received a new life, it does not mean they instantly become like Jesus, rather that they start the journey of becoming like him.
My new years resolution is to each day be more and more like Christ.
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