A new year has new possibilities, new potential, and the prospect of a new way of looking at life.  Followers of Christ have been made into a new creation by God.  When I received Christ Jesus into my life I was made into a new creation…His life in me.  Does this make me perfect…no…but I can confidently turn from thinking the way I have always thought and turn from the way I have always responded/reacted to others.

(NASB) 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”

What is the comparison of God’s thoughts to yours?
(NASB) Isaiah 55:8-9 “ ‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,’ declares the LORD.
9 ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

The LORD God had you in mind before you were born.  You are valuable to Him.  He considered your needs when the LORD Jesus Christ went to the cross for you and in your place.  God’s thoughts are indeed higher than your thoughts.  His way was to go to the cross and give the perfect sacrifice needed for your sins.

The LORD God’s thoughts went beyond any person’s thoughts when His power raised Jesus from the dead…the resurrection of Jesus Christ proved His power over death…for you.

A new year is coming, the living God of the Holy Bible is seeking you to look for Him.
(NASB) Isaiah 55:6-7 “Seek the LORD while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way
‘and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the LORD,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”

You have new possibilities, new potentials, and prospects of a new way of living life!

 

What a way to begin the year of our Lord, 2012,

in the power of God through Christ.