A New Year - Are You Ready For a New Beginning

A New Year - Are You Ready For a New Beginning?

"...for they will all know me, from the least of them unto the best of them, saith the LORD: for I will excuse their injustice, and I will recall their transgression no more."

- Jeremiah 31:34

It's a New Year - 2010. Possibly you make New Year's goals, perhaps you don't. Be that as it may, for the vast majority, the New Year flags a period for change, a chance to re-make our lives and our conditions.

The Christian radio broadcast I tune in to (KMTC) told the best 10 New Year's goals; nothing excessively astounding. It included things like getting in shape, get fit, escapes obligation - the standard stuff.

The thing is, with God, each minute can be a fresh start. We serve a God of fresh starts. Truth be told, he is so acceptable to us, that I think we frequently the only sort of disregard it since we genuinely don't get it.

You know the familiar adage: "forgive and never look back". All things considered, for us, that is actually quite difficult. Truth be told, I'd state it's truly incomprehensible. We may excuse, however as much as we may attempt to overlook, the memory of that individual off-base is still there in our psyche. We may not consider it much, and we may not even discuss it, yet it's there. We don't have God's capacity to "recall their wrongdoing no more".

That is the reason it's so difficult for us to accept that God cherishes us as much as he does. We take a gander at all of the occasions we've fizzled. We take a gander at our long clothing rundown and marvel how he might pardon us. We contrast our deficiencies with the individuals who are superior to anything we are, and despite the fact that we realize it isn't valid, regardless we feel that God must love them more than us since they are so much better.

We become involved with the "works versus confidence" schedule, and that is a position we truly would prefer not to get ourselves into.

"Think not so I am come to obliterate the law or the prophets: I am not come to annihilate, yet to satisfy."

- Matthew 5:17

Jesus satisfied the law since he realized we proved unable. He didn't satisfy the law with the goal that we wouldn't need to tail it any longer, however, so we would be made a decision under an alternate situation. We aren't made a decision by the stated aim of the law any longer, yet we are secured by beauty.

At the point when God the Father takes a gander at us, he doesn't see us, he sees his child: flawless, immaculate, great...

Do we truly get that? Truly?

Investigate the Faith Hall of Fame (Hebrews 11). Take a gander at the individuals recorded there.

First, we have Moses. He was a genuine troublemaker. Truth be told, he let his feelings dominate and executed an Egyptian.

Or on the other hand, take Jacob. Jacob was a liar and a criminal. He tricked his sibling, Esau, out of his legitimate legacy.

Rahab of Jericho was a whore. However, she is in the genealogy of Jesus.

Shouldn't something be said about lord David? He had a man slaughtered so he has his significant other.

In this way, here we have killers, liars, cheats, whores, philanderers... Presently, on the off chance that I needed to return myself under the law and contrast my wrongdoings and the transgressions of this rundown of people, possibly I'm not all that awful all things considered!

The thing is, God, pardoned them and when God excuses, it's as if their transgressions never occurred.

"Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth injustice, and passeth by the offence of the remainder of his legacy? he retaineth not his annoyance forever, in light of the fact that he delighteth in leniency. He will turn once more, he will have sympathy upon us; he will repress our evildoings, and thou shrivel cast every one of their transgressions into the profundities of the ocean."

- Micah 7:18-19

Still, experience difficulty trusting it? Take a gander at the depiction of Abraham in the Faith Hall of Fame:

"Furthermore, being not frail in confidence, he thought about not his very own body now dead, when he was around a hundred years of age, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's belly: He stunned not at the guarantee of God through unbelief; yet was solid in confidence, offering brilliance to God; And being completely convinced that, what he had guaranteed, he was capable likewise to perform."

- Romans 4:19-21

Presently, perhaps your Bible peruses not quite the same as mine, yet mine says that God told Abram and Sarai they would have an infant when Abram was around 75 years of age. Truth be told, it was so troublesome an idea for them to fold their minds over that Sarai burst out snickering when she heard it.

Indeed, nothing occurred, so Abram and Sarai brought matters into their very own hands and Abram laid down with the servant and created Ishmael.

I don't think about you, however, that doesn't seem like Abram was solid in confidence, or stunning not at God's guarantee, or that he was completely convinced.

At long last, God needed to change his name to Abraham, the dad of numerous countries, he must be Abraham to state about himself the thing God had just said about him. He needed to get Abraham to speak God's reality. He needed to have Abraham consider those things into a reality that were nothing. At exactly that point, a quarter-century after the first guarantee did Abraham become the dad of confidence.

However, in the Faith Hall of Fame, God didn't record the disappointments of his kin. He just recorded their triumphs. Don't you see? He didn't recall them. He had excused them. It was just as they never occurred. He had thrown every one of their wrongdoings into the profundities of the ocean.

"...Blessed are they whose evildoings are pardoned, and whose transgressions are secured. Favoured is the man to whom the Lord won't ascribe sin."

We are really honoured. Our wrongdoings are excused, and God doesn't blame us for them, to him they don't exist.

Today, make this a New Beginning. You can be, do and have all that God's Word guarantees you. Try not to take a gander at your conditions, don't take a gander at the past, stand firm on the Word. Really, he is a God of New Beginnings.

I wish you and yours a Happy New Year loaded up with God's benevolence and favours. May they pursue you down and overwhelm you until you need to state, "without a doubt it's sufficient!" This year, may you be honoured so you can be a gift to other people.