Well, the gifts are barely unwrapped and maybe some have already been returned! Facebook is loaded with posts about the new gifts that people received for Christmas. Many are diligently reading instruction manuals, while practicing the use of new gadgets, because we need to know how to use these devices.
While we have all these new gifts, we soon will be entering and celebrating a new year. We will see many make resolutions about new ways of living in the new year. I often wonder if people are as diligent in planning new ways to worship God, as they are with planning diets or better ways to handle money and relationships.
Brothers and Sisters as we practice with new gadgets that play roles in our life and as we anticipate new things in the new year, shouldn't we be planning and embracing new ways to praise God?
The Gospels tell us of the newness that the birth of Christ means. Also, the Apostle Paul told us in his letter to the Romans of our news lives in baptism. We are told that this new life gives us eternal life with Christ in heaven. Yes, we are people in which God continually gives newness.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.Romans 6:4 (ESV)
As people that are made new, shouldn't we constantly be finding new ways to praise God and to spread His Gospel? My prayer for all of us in the new year is that we enter it finding new ways to praise, worship, and be the people that God has made us new to be!
Next time someone tells you at church "We have always done it that way", tell them that God has made us new people and is constantly having the Holy Spirit introduce new ways for us to tell His story and to share His Word.
Jump into the New Year as a "new person", finding new ways to spread the word that is unchangeable. God has no limits and neither do his people have limits, in ways of spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Reading the Instruction Manual (The Bible) and Excited That I Have Been Made "New"!
Pastor Tim
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