A do-over! and then I thought....do we want a do over?!
We talk about the new year as a clean slate, starting over....but do we think about the previous year as needing a do-over?
Do we wish for one? Do we need one? Should we even worry about wanting one?
Maybe some of us think...."my life should be a do over"
If you have accepted Christ.....guess what ....YOU GOT IT!
not that you will not make mistakes or even flounder at times...but
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:14-19
We are a new creation...the OLD is GONE! NEW has come....a DO OVER!
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:1-13
We have been brought near and made alive by the blood of Christ!
His forgiveness removes our sins
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12
Live each day for Him, so that there are no regrets...no desires for a do-over. So that when the new year or even a new day arrives we can say "it is well with my soul"
End your day praising Him for ALL He blessed you with and asking for forgiveness for those things which went against His desire for you, and seeking His wisdom for tomorrow, doing this with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. (more on that next week!)
This is my prayer for you!
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