Doubtless hundreds of canny bloggers will be able to dice/splice/parse the various thoughts and meanings and hopes and cynicisms assosiated with January 1st, 2009; I am not one of them.
I could quote: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17), but that's not strictly a New Years thought. That's a daily, wake-up-in-the-morning,-grope-for-your-jeans kind of thought. That's a thought to eat your breakfast to in March, and shout to the sun in August, and murmer into your scarf in November.
We've talked a lot in church about keeping short accounts with God, which (rightly or wrongly) I have taken to mean confession in the moment, rather than continuing to sin until I've worn a damaging and depressing rut for myself. I want to read the Word and build up good influences in my day before my same old flaws reassert themselves; I want to pray more often for the people I love, and make a better habit of praying for the ones I'd happily drop-kick. I want to live my 'here and now' to the fullest, so that when its 'there and back then', I can remember it with pleasure and satisfaction.
Is this a New Years Resolution? Not exactly. This is reaching for the new creation. This is loving the God who made me by giving him the thing he wants the most. This is just another day, in another month, in another year, and no more miraculous than yesterday... but no less, either.
1 comment:
Ah, I totally agree!
I think as Christians New Year's resolutions are kind of silly, not that I have anything against them. It certainly offers a chance to think of things we should perhaps improve, whether it will be by our own strength or not.
But certainly growing in our Christian walk is an everyday, every moment growth, not just a attempt at the beginning of the year.
Sorry for kind of rambling...I've just been thinking about this and you put it better than I could. :)
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