As we start another New Year and most everyone feels fat or they feel some form of pressure to be a better person in some way I can’t help but think about all this newest and wonder where it comes from and how come we, as humans like new things so much?
What is it about new things that we like? Why do we like to always have new stuff or put pressure to start over? Do we need to have new things? Do we ever really have new beginnings in the first place? Sure we have a new year and we have to go out and buy a new calendar from some stupid mall cart and we start a new year on January 1st, but what makes January 1st any different then December 31st? Is there something magical that happens? When we have a birthday do we wake up the next day and feel any older? I don’t think so but I like most everyone else love new beginnings. I might not be a complete sucker for New Year’s resolutions but if I’m offered a free scent at the car wash you better believe I get new car scent. Why? Cause it smells new! We love new!!!
With all this newness and it being January 4th I like to try and see if there is any connection with the excitement of a new year and the excitement of a new life. My sister just had a baby boy two weeks ago so this whole new world and new life is everywhere in my life right now and I’m trying to get my head around what I think God wants to teach me in this new season of my life.
If when we accept Christ into our lives we are a new creation, then how do we stay new? I myself accepted Christ back in the summer of 5th grade and now I’m 28. I don’t question my faith one bit, I love God and want more than ever to seek him and his will for my life… but, with that said, I would still like to know where I can buy some new car scent for my spiritual life from time to time? We get to celebrate a new year every January 1st and think of ways to be better people but this year I want more than that. I think New Year’s resolutions are cheesy and dumb yet I love stories of people who have experienced life change. I love seeing people make a change in their lives and become a new creation inside and out.
I guess that is what I am after… I want to feel new and yet know that I am better than just good intentions. I want the best for my life yet even more I want to be the best for my Lord and Savior knowing that it is only though his power that I can experience something even better than life change, I can experience joy! So this new year I am choosing to pursue joy and trying to be a new creation every day.
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