Blessings For The New Year

January 2025

The Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” When we get saved, He gives us a new life; and when we start a New Year, we have the opportunity to start fresh and rededicate our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. With the New Year come new blessings, new opportunities, and new challenges. Our God is a God of second chances, and He is always to ready renew us and use us for His glory.

Only He knows the future and what is best for us. We make plans, resolutions, and set goals, but He is the One who leads us and brings about His will in our lives. Proverbs 16:9 says, “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” None of us knows what the future holds for us in 2015, but the Lord has never failed us and He will always come through for us.

Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote this resolution in his journal on January 1, 1705, “Not renouncing, but repeating and ratifying all my former Covenants with God, and lamenting it, that I have not lived up more closely to them; I do in the beginning of this New Year solemnly make a fresh surrender of myself, my whole self, body, soul, and spirit to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, my Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, covenanting and promising, not in any strength of my own, for I am very weak, but in the strength of the grace of Jesus Christ, that I will endeavor this year to stand complete in all the will of God.”

Any goal, resolution, or plan, derived or empowered by the flesh, is destined to fail; but when we rededicate our lives to Christ, confess all known sin, and ask for His help, He can do great and mighty things in us and though us. The future is indeed bright. We need not fear, worry, or doubt when were are in His care. May the blessings of our Lord be upon all of us as we go through the New Year! Let us remember the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 8:31, “If God be for us, who can be against us?”