New Year! New You?
Every new year brings in a new opportunity to be a new if not better you.
But year in and year out our new year's resolutions only last a few weeks, if not a few days.
And then when the inevitable happens -- when we break our resolution, we end up feeling bad and quit trying to be a better person until the next new year.
And each year it's the same new determination to do good or to be good, and most times, the same results, disappointment.
What most people have yet to realize is that by ourselves, we cannot be good. We can try but then eventually we stumble, we falter and we fail. And because of that, so many of us just quit trying altogether.
Real Change
2nd Corinthians 5:17 says, If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone, everything is made new! (NCV)
If we allow God, He will change us from the inside out and real and lasting change happens. It's not like we just put on new clothes, we are actually made new.
So for this start of the new year, if you really want to be a new you, stop trying and instead let God do it.
Believe that you just didn't happen by accident but was created by a God -- the Creator of all things. Accept the fact that you aren't perfect and wouldn't be able to however else you try to be one. You've missed the mark so many times and will continue to do so.
You want to stop trying on your own and you want to surrender your life to the one who made you.
One Way
Believe that God made a way for you to make everything right by Him, by accepting His gift of grace -- His Son Jesus Christ.
Believe that Jesus took your place of you living a life of mediocrity. Read about what all this about from the pages of the bible. If you wish you can start with the Gospel of John.
Listen here.
Find out about Him from that book and from all the other books that make up the New Testament bible.
If you have any question (and all of us do), look for a bible believing and bible teaching church and sit down to listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And make that as your new year's resolution -- to give God a chance.
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