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Yes. I realize that I’m a bit late. We are ten days into the New Year.
Hardly, on time am I? However, there is a point in my delayed welcome to 2014
and greetings to all the KGH blog readers.
There used to be a slogan – New Year, New You. I can’t really remember
what the slogan was attached to, but the phrase has stuck in my mind. Many
people see the start of a new year as an opportunity for a new start. New
lifestyle? New diet? New relationship? New hairstyle/makeover? All these are
considered and discussed. I suppose that the idea is that we must shake off the
shackles of the old year. We must forget the misfortunes of the past and focus
on the possibilities for something better in the future. I wonder, now we have
reached January 10th, how many of the best laid plans are still
being followed, and how much optimism there still is now most of us have
returned from the holiday period back to the routines of life.
What do all these failed resolutions and plans tell us? They tell us
what we are really like. Even if you’re still sticking to your resolution and
achieving some success in whatever it is, there is still the lesson of what we
can hope to achieve. The best we can achieve will still leave us short of God’s
standard for our life. We may be able to lose the most weight and achieve our
target. We may be able to change jobs and have a really successful and
prosperous career. We may be able to turn our life around and become the best
partner, parent, or friend anyone could want. However, we can never reach God’s
standard of perfection. The Bible says we are sinners – all of us. We need God’s
salvation and blessing to fit us for heaven.
What we seek to tell our readers through this blog is that God has
provided a Saviour and a way of salvation. All we have to do is admit that we
are sinners and accept God’s gift of salvation through faith in His Son. As the
Lord Jesus Christ died some 2000 years ago outside the city of Jerusalem, He
died there for your sin and mine. God judged His Son for our sin. However, the importance
of that sacrifice of Jesus Christ can only be applied if we accept it and
believe it was for us. Salvation is not automatic. It requires my faith, my willingness
to accept it. Will you? That would make 2014 a New Year – the start of a new,
Christian life!
