A New Year A New Thing
My mistakes of 2008 set me up for what I call divine 2009. This is
my year! As I have stated before, I am so exited I can hardly sleep. Great,
great things are in store for me and are manifesting as I speak.
The awesome thing about a New Year is just that, it is new. We get to start a whole new beginning. We get to lay a new foundation and speak new things into existence. We can leave the mess of the past in the past. We have the opportunity to see brand new mercies and brand new grace. The great thing about God is that he does not have to wait for a New Year to do a New Thing. He does that every moment of every day. Every day I rise, I am greeted with new loving kindness and renewed love. Every time I mess up and I mess up more than I would like to admit (but I admit it any way), I receive the beautiful gift of God's forgiveness. I stopped trying to be perfect along time ago. Too much wasted effort on something I can never achieve. I have often wondered why God even bothers with me? Why does he peer down from his throne to ensure that all is well? Why does he have an angelic army protecting me every moment I spend on this side of eternity? He is not only tolerant but loving! Why will he move heaven and earth to make sure that every thing I need I have when I need it? Why does he continue to wipe my tears and pick up my raggedy pieces? Why does he send a boat when I intentionally jump in the ocean knowing I cannot swim? Why does he wait for me to come to him when he is Almighty God? Who am I that I can call on him and he answers? He is the Creator of creation, the beginning and the end. He flung stars in the sky, set the sun and moon in place, and knows every grain of sand on every beach. He knows the number of hair on every ravens head and rotates our existence on the axle of his hand. He is just bad! Yet, he concerns himself with the simpleness of me. Every day I live I am simply amazed.
The answer to all of that is a very simple one. Actually two simple for some. God the Father loves me because he wants to and he loves you too...just as much. When he sent his son to Calvary, he dealt with my (and your) sin issue. Upon acceptance of a very loving Savior I was made a child of the most high God. I am his daughter. Imagine that. His daughter.With that comes privileges and responsibilities. With that comes access to the Only True and Living God and I get redemption, love, peace, joy, forgiveness and New Year's every single day.
I have freedom. I know that no matter what I do or don't do, say or don't say, get right or wrong, I can go to the One who can and will make it all right. What else is there? What more could I possible need? Today, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Nothing. I do not need anything else because I have the only One that matters and because of him I get to experience a New Year, A New beginning every single day.
The awesome thing about a New Year is just that, it is new. We get to start a whole new beginning. We get to lay a new foundation and speak new things into existence. We can leave the mess of the past in the past. We have the opportunity to see brand new mercies and brand new grace. The great thing about God is that he does not have to wait for a New Year to do a New Thing. He does that every moment of every day. Every day I rise, I am greeted with new loving kindness and renewed love. Every time I mess up and I mess up more than I would like to admit (but I admit it any way), I receive the beautiful gift of God's forgiveness. I stopped trying to be perfect along time ago. Too much wasted effort on something I can never achieve. I have often wondered why God even bothers with me? Why does he peer down from his throne to ensure that all is well? Why does he have an angelic army protecting me every moment I spend on this side of eternity? He is not only tolerant but loving! Why will he move heaven and earth to make sure that every thing I need I have when I need it? Why does he continue to wipe my tears and pick up my raggedy pieces? Why does he send a boat when I intentionally jump in the ocean knowing I cannot swim? Why does he wait for me to come to him when he is Almighty God? Who am I that I can call on him and he answers? He is the Creator of creation, the beginning and the end. He flung stars in the sky, set the sun and moon in place, and knows every grain of sand on every beach. He knows the number of hair on every ravens head and rotates our existence on the axle of his hand. He is just bad! Yet, he concerns himself with the simpleness of me. Every day I live I am simply amazed.
The answer to all of that is a very simple one. Actually two simple for some. God the Father loves me because he wants to and he loves you too...just as much. When he sent his son to Calvary, he dealt with my (and your) sin issue. Upon acceptance of a very loving Savior I was made a child of the most high God. I am his daughter. Imagine that. His daughter.With that comes privileges and responsibilities. With that comes access to the Only True and Living God and I get redemption, love, peace, joy, forgiveness and New Year's every single day.
I have freedom. I know that no matter what I do or don't do, say or don't say, get right or wrong, I can go to the One who can and will make it all right. What else is there? What more could I possible need? Today, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Nothing. I do not need anything else because I have the only One that matters and because of him I get to experience a New Year, A New beginning every single day.
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