As with most New Year’s traditions in America, most of us will not begin celebrating the coming of the new year until this Thursday evening. In our home we will start the festivities around 6 or 7 p.m. These will include board games, a movie or two, and of course quite a bit of various finger-food items. As the evening draws closer to midnight, we will tune in to watch the ‘ball drop’ in Time Square. When midnight arrives there is screaming, yelling, kissing, and celebration of all kinds…because there is now a ‘new’ year to look forward to.
What will that new year bring? We don’t know…we really don’t have any guarantees. Oh sure, we definitively hope for less stress, better financial security, and good health. From a realist standpoint, however, there is nothing magical in January 1st that is going to wipe everything clean of 2009. It’s simply just another day.
Isaiah 43:19
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
Here’s the good news. God wants you to know that He is on the brink of doing something ‘new.’ The gears are already in motion. Plans are being made…and you’re in them! There is nothing mystical about the dawn of 2010, but there is something very real and powerful in what God is planning right now!
What is it that you long for to be new in 2010? Are you trusting Jesus for it? This week, may you put less trust in New Year’s Day and more trust in the one who created that day before it is even here. May you also be willing and excited to receive the ‘new’ that God is working on this very moment.
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