Tag: new start

Happy New Year all!

With the new year, often comes New Year resolutions for a lot of people. The idea is, “Let’s have a new start, a fresh start.”

But the truth is, we don’t need a new start. We have already been given a new start in Jesus. As Paul wrote,

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Note something: a lot of “fresh starts” we try to embark upon are based on our efforts, on what we do.

But our fresh start is by grace. As Paul says in verse 18, “Everything is from God.”

Our salvation, our cleansing, our being made more like Jesus…all this is from God.

We do not start the Christian life by grace and then live the rest of it based on our own efforts and willpower.

So remember: when we fall, when we sin, when we fail, we don’t have to go back to the very beginning and start all over again, looking for a “fresh start.”

Wherever we are at, Jesus is ahead of us, and showing us the next step. All we have to do is take that next step.

As you look at Jesus from where you’re at, what is the next step he is calling you to?