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A new year! When a new year arrives we expect that it will bring changes to our lives: something new. But a new year is just a way of measuring time. It is just as your birthday: you don’t become one year older in your birthday, but just one day older than yesterday.
As time passes there are no automatic changes. If we want changes in our lives we need to purposely pursue them, otherwise we wont get anything new,except getting older.
It is natural to desire new things: a change for the better. I think that the desire of change comes as a result of a desire to achieve satisfaction. So, we buy new clothes, get a new hair style, change jobs, buy a new car, move to a new house, lose weight, get esthetic surgery, change our priorities, or even move to a new church. But it looks like even after getting what we wanted we don’t achieve the expected satisfaction.
These changes may produce in us some level of satisfaction, but as time passes by the resulting satisfaction seems to fade away. The reason for this is simple: we were created to live forever, so nothing on the earth can really satisfy us.
And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” – Genesis 3:22
We were created to live forever, but sin brought us death. But don’t let this make you lose hope, since in Jesus we can recover eternal life.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. – John 3:16
The only change that brings something really new and satisfying to our lives is a relationship with Jesus.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! – 2 Corinthians 5:17
Through him we receive new strength (Isaiah 40:31), new compassions (Lamentations 3:22-23), joy (Luke 2:10), and peace (Ephesians 2:17), among other things. And eventually everything will be new:
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” – Revelations 21:5
Do you want new and truly satisfying things for your life in this new year? Purposely engage in a relationship with Jesus. He promises that everything will be new, and as He promised it will done.
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