Happy New Year!
How long does it take for a New Year Resolution to be broken?
I’m a regular swimmer – twice a week I do lane swimming at Rugby School swimming pool. And January is notorious for the influx of people determined to get fit! The place is heaving until around the second week.
Then they all disappear. And the New Year becomes just like the old one – a year when we have failed to live-up to our own expectations.
The trouble is that we get so fixated about the wrong kind of newness. There is a newness that God makes. It’s a newness of the future, not of the past. We see it reflected in the newness of springtime, when new things grow out of the old and, what seems to be dead. If we look to God for our newness it is full of promise and hope. If we look to manufactured human things then we are soon disillusioned.
How can you tell the difference between something that God has made and something that people have made? When you magnify them the human-made things look very crude.
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