We talked with our grandchildren this morning over Skype and teased them as to what year they were in. Simone answered correctly that it was 2012. But we assured her it was really 2013; the New Year had already arrived. Of course we were talking from a time zone 12 hours ahead of hers.
New! I read the early chapters of Genesis this morning and paused to wonder what it was like to have everything new. To be in an unbroken relationship with God. To be unhindered by, even unaware of what sin and shame feel like. To be perfectly innocent.
New! To be in a perfect marriage. (OK ours is almost perfect after 44 years but not quite.) To be absolutely "in synch" with nature. To be perfectly "in synch" with yourself (Do you have debates with yourself as often as I do?).
In the beginning God made everything in nature good. He described it that way. Yet we live with "the curse". We live with hurricanes and typhoons, earthquakes and drought, snowstorms and heat waves.
The New Year provides a new beginning for all of us - a New Year on which to write our actions and words. Yet of course we each carry into the year the package of our past - we don't start with a clean slate.
But one day there will be a new beginning for every believer; a beginning that is totally new. We will be newly fashioned with resurrection bodies and we will be part of a new heaven and new earth.
Meanwhile in this New Year, our goal is to become more like Christ, even as we live as "new creations" with our own "sin scars" and with relationships and a world scarred by sin. May this be a wonderful year of spiritual growth for all of us.
New! I read the early chapters of Genesis this morning and paused to wonder what it was like to have everything new. To be in an unbroken relationship with God. To be unhindered by, even unaware of what sin and shame feel like. To be perfectly innocent.
New! To be in a perfect marriage. (OK ours is almost perfect after 44 years but not quite.) To be absolutely "in synch" with nature. To be perfectly "in synch" with yourself (Do you have debates with yourself as often as I do?).
In the beginning God made everything in nature good. He described it that way. Yet we live with "the curse". We live with hurricanes and typhoons, earthquakes and drought, snowstorms and heat waves.
The New Year provides a new beginning for all of us - a New Year on which to write our actions and words. Yet of course we each carry into the year the package of our past - we don't start with a clean slate.
But one day there will be a new beginning for every believer; a beginning that is totally new. We will be newly fashioned with resurrection bodies and we will be part of a new heaven and new earth.
Meanwhile in this New Year, our goal is to become more like Christ, even as we live as "new creations" with our own "sin scars" and with relationships and a world scarred by sin. May this be a wonderful year of spiritual growth for all of us.
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