New Year, New Me Possibility

Today we wake up to a new day, a new year, a new decade.

2020 has begun.

Most often we see the New Year as a chance to put the past behind us and start over. This is the time that many of us make our New Year’s Resolutions to lose weight, stop smoking, save money, have less negativity, read the Bible, and pray more… or just try to be a much better person than we were last year.

You’ve heard it…you may have even said it, “New Year, New Me.”

Well, we can make all the resolutions, read all the self-help books, do all the diets, change the color of our hair, buy a new wardrobe, tweet all the positive quotes, remove all the negative people, and VOW to do the ”New Year, New Me” thing….But…

A “New Me” doesn’t come with the tick of the clock or the flip of a calendar on January 1^st.

A “New Me” is only possible through a deliberate, passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ!

Ephesians 4:17-32

¹⁷ Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. ¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. ¹⁹ They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. ²⁰ But that is not the way you learned Christ!— ²¹ assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ²² to put off your old self,which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

²⁵ Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, ²⁷ and give no opportunity to the devil. ²⁸ Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. ²⁹ Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. ³² Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

It is in Jesus and only Jesus that we are able to let go of the past and all of the things that keep us from becoming the person He has created us to be. In Him, we have the power and strength to overcome the obstacles of our former selves and begin to live in the freedom that Jesus bought for us with His own blood.

May this be the new day, new year, new decade that we stop running after every earthly fix and truly chase after Him with a whole heart.

May our “New Year, New Me” Possibility for 2020 be one of deliberate, passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:13b-14

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Soli Deo Gloria

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