Each year we strive for changes, set goals, create intentions, try to be better. A new year can be invigorating or exhausting. Change can be fresh or intimidating. But maybe sometimes we need to let go and look to God to transform us, renew us. Maybe it’s less of what we do and more of who we look to.
Pray and meditate on this:
NEW YEAR, SAME GOD.
Need a resolution re-do?
Set your intentions on The One who sets the way before you.
He is the re-solution.
Restoring, renewing, redeeming,
in a cycle of complete and repeat.
He is the God of again.
“New year, new you”, can always be true.
Surrender to The One who formed you and re-forms you.
Release the burden of perfection.
Trust in His grace and intercession.
He is the God of again.
Open up your bible and dive deeper into these verses:
Proverbs 16:9
Isaiah 40:31
2 Corinthians 5:17
2 Corinthians 3:18
Colossians 3:10
Colossians 3:1-3
Isaiah 43:19
Ephesians 4:22-24
Jeremiah 29:11
Hebrews 13:8
Heavenly Father-
Here in the tension of the now and the not yet,
Remind us that you are making a way and doing a new thing.
Help us to remember so we don’t forget-
You are the same God now that you were then.
You are the God of again.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Words from Aimee Thornton - a dear friend of Six Notes whose words always inspire us.