Every Day a New Day

Listen to the birds. Before the sun rises, they announce a new day with song. Start everyday as a new day with a song in your heart. Choose to see the sun rising with new hope and forgiveness and shake off the chains of past failures.  This is a new day!

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus (Philippians  3:13-14 NIV)

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This New Year I Resolve...

As we approach a end of one year and the coming of another, I am reminded of what Michael Altshuler said:

"The bad news is [that] time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

Perhaps this New Year, it would be good for each of us to remember that time does fly - so we should let God be the pilot. The flight will be smoother! Therefore let the following be my resolution:

I resolve, with the help of my God, to live for the glory of the only true God. 

(What did you expect from a guy that titled his book For His Glory?)

For those that may not believe in resolutions, I give you the poem below:

A New Year's Poem for Christians by -- Mary Fairchild

Instead of making a New Year's resolution
Consider committing to a biblical solution
Your promises are easily broken
Empty words, though earnestly spoken
But God's Word transforms the soul
By His Holy Spirit making you whole
As you spend time alone with Him
He will change you from within

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A New Year -- A Fresh Start

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 ESV

Before time was, the eternal God and creator of all things introduced the beginning. He is the God of beginnings – New Beginnings.  Do not fail to grasp this simple truth: God can give you a new beginning – a new start. Enter the New Year with hope, knowing that the Lord who created all wants to create in you an new heart and fresh start.

Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 ESV

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 ESV

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A New Year, A New Beginning

A New Year brings thoughts of a fresh start – a new beginning! You may find the following poem helpful!

   "A New Year, A New Beginning"

   The old year ends, a new begins
   With pages clean and new;
   And what is written on each page
   will now depend on you.

   You can't relive the year that's past,
   Erasing every wrong;
   For once a year - or day - is spent,
   It is forever gone.

   But don't give up in dark despair
   If you have failed some test;
   Seek God's forgiveness and resolve
   Henceforth to do your best.

   Resolve each precious day to do
   Things good and kind and pure;
   Though days and years may pass away,
   These things shall still endure.

   You know not where your path may lead
   Nor what's beyond the hill;
   But know that God walks at your side,
   If you will do His will.

   All things are possible with God,
   Though days be bright or dim;
   So do your best and know that you
   Can leave the rest to Him.
   - Author Unknown

Recipe for a Happy New Year

Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time. Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day at a time.

 Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it), prayer, meditation, and one well-selected resolution. Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor. -Anonymous

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