As a new year kicks off, we have a tendency to look at areas of our lives that we need to change or be better in.  I’ve done it  year after year.   With the start of a new year comes the opportunity to begin again, and do things differently than before.  It’s a time of refreshment.

For me, and like so many others after the Christmas season, a new year brings the resolution of exercise, better health, and losing a few of those unwanted pounds that seemed to have attracted themselves to me. (My family is a little bit bake-happy during the Christmas season, making over 500 cookies, breads, and candy.  We could really start our own Christmas bakery!)

I think we all take a look at our spiritual condition. We see how we can start fresh again with a renewed spirit.

My hope as we begin the “ReStart" sermon series on January 10th is that you might better grasp that our God is a God of second chances, of third chances, of forth chances (I could go on here). Scripture tells us over and over again that He’s able to forgive if we just confess.  He wants us to be a new creature in Him!  What an amazing thought!  

My challenge to you:  Don’t just vow to change, but tell someone about your vow!  Be accountable and transparent!  Having someone else know your commitment helps in keeping you from breaking it.  At the end of the year, there seems to be some resolution that wasn’t fulfilled, but my prayer for you for 2010 is that you would be able to fulfill the commitment that God desires for you to make.  That you would be better for it...your family would be better for it...that your friends would be better for it.  That people would see your commitment, and be drawn to Christ because of YOU!  
Have a blessed 2010!
 
P.S.  I want to know what your New Year resolutions are!  Post what you are committed to doing in the year 2010!