New Years Day is an awesome time; a time to begin a new. A chance to create resolutions to try to accomplish those things we couldn’t the past year is the new year. For many it is not welcome, the new year, but for those who are looking for the opportunity to have a fresh start it is a welcoming time. If every day would be a new start it would be awesome, in fact, it is; every day is a chance to start new. God’s promise is for today to be a starting chance for someone. Many of us forget that newness is not only for the new Christian, but for all of us; Every day is New Years Day.
Revelation 21:3-4
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The purpose for God to send his Son Jesus Christ to earth to day for our sins it was and is to establish a relationship with men. A relationship of worship and adoration where men can come to God with their needs and God can bless man is the tabernacle he established. Jesus said that he would not leave us as orphans, but would give us the Holy Spirit, the counselor and guide. No matter what we go through in life there is always a new beginning in the horizon of hope. The human spirit can encounter and endure tremendous tension if the mind believes its capacity for survival will not be stretched ad infinitum. Sometimes we live not by what we have but by that for which we hope. Heaven is our ultimate hope. That hope supplies stamina during stress (Ashbury Commentary). Hope is as a garment that we can either put on or take off, but we cannot mix it with other things like doubt (Mt. 9:16-17). When we try put something old like doubt after hope it only makes the situations worst; it tears the skins.
Paul encourages us to put away the old; those things that brings down our hope. To be unleavened bread is a state of flatness no variation, and Paul makes all of us as a new lump (1Cor. 5:7-8). Something new and afresh are those who follow Christ. We need to be in a celebration mode because of the newness in us. Newness deals with two essential factors, the past which carries pain, tears and sorrow and the new of which Christ promised to come (2 Cor. 5:17), a new creature erupts or is evolved. The new is always ready to come when we are ready to allow the old to wax away (Heb.8:13).