New Year's Revolutions...

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My thought for the day today is entitled “New year’s revolutions”. Yes you heard me right, not New Year’s resolutions, but “new year’s revolutions”.

You will be familiar with new year’s resolutions. They are all well and good…

·        Lose some weight

·        stop smoking

·        go to the gym

The trouble with new year’s resolutions is that they are so hard to keep. Maybe that’s why I found a list of these slightly easier to accomplish new years resolutions on the internet…

·        Go to a Weight watchers group and eat a bag of crisps during the break

·        Give yourself a high five no matter what number you read when you step on the scales.

Or these slightly more wacky New year’s resolutions…

·        Sing instead of speaking for a whole day.

·        Run a half marathon backwards

·        Love yourself as much as Lizzo loves herself.

·        Dance in a public place as if no-one is watching!

But the trouble with New Year’s Resolutions whether you keep them or not is that they just don’t go deep enough. Maybe there’s an area of your life that you aren’t happy with, well great if you can lose some weight after all that turkey, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a new person. Not to be so selfish or greedy in the first place.

Jesus met a guy called Nicodemus and said to him, “you must be born again”. Now that’s hardly a compliment. He’s kind of saying (and he was talking about being right with God) you would be better off starting your life over as a new person. We can’t get to God by turning over a new leaf, we need a new life! And that’s just what he brings!

 So why not try a New Year’s Revolution this year. Why not ask the God of the universe to come into your life in the person of Jesus Christ by his Holy Spirit to transform you from the inside out?

Why not ask God to forgive you your sins, to rule your decision making and to make you new? God who made the universe can make a new you. You won’t find power to change in self help books, but you will in the baby born in the manger. Just get in touch if we can help you further.

Happy New Year to you all, especially Peter and the team at HCR and thanks for listening.  

01JAN24 Charlie Newcombe