I like New Years time – it’s a time of fun and excitement, anticipation of the future and what could be. Even if you aren’t a “new year’s resolution” type of person, you still very likely think about what the past year has brought and what you would like to see happen/not happen in the next year. I think having plans and goals is just fine.
Wouldn’t it be nice to live like things can be boxed into “old year” and “new year”, but on a much more granular level?
All the excitement about New Year’s is over just after the clock strikes midnight. The singing, the kissing, the drinking, the games… they all sort of trail off after that event-filled moment in history. And that’s it.
The resolutions may stick around for a while or maybe they will not. The opportunity to make an obvious attempt at change may have just drifted away, if there were no real intentions of keeping everything on the list (given, it is after the holidays when we create the list).
I believe with God, something greater than New Year’s is available. God is very familiar with “new”:
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
This is good for us. This is good. This is what the power of God and power of Jesus Christ is capable of – do you know what’s it like to be a new creature? Have you tasted that? If you have, then this – new creature – sings for you.
Here it is: God’s “new” isn’t a once a year thing.
That feeling we have on New Year’s – what if that were something we could experience through God every day? New Year’s is big – how big is this? How do you measure “becoming a new creature”?
Maybe, a more personal question would be – at what depth do you stop pursuing “newness” with God? When do you think you’ve experience the greatness of God’s intention as it relates to our becoming new creations?
Whoa. Right?
Keep pushing.
God is big and the completeness that we have in access to Him and favor with Him and coverings by Him is huge. The “ball” has already dropped. But do we know what the fireworks look like, or how big they can “boom”? Have we seen the possibilities with God, like a new year as a new us?
Explore the depths of God as you reach for Him and push into His inner room.
After all, it is a new year.
To be more and more new – never satisfied with where I’m at, thankful that God does not need to follow our calendar… Well said!
Thanks for stopping by! God’s new is the newest kind of new. And has the quality built right in. What a great God!