Fresh Start

As 2013 started i couldn't help but wonder if it was just a case of same script, different timing scenario. Luckily for me at this time of the year everyone is buzzing with positivity,new year resolutions that negative thoughts are quickly thrown out. So i quickly started to instead ponder, "How does a Christian approach the prospect of a clean slate?" This time not just luckily but miraculously as i pondered the 1st Sunday of 2013 found me as expected in church only that the message blew me away,rather was specifically for me, titled a fresh start, which was not only the message of the day but rightfully the theme of the year. Every day God gives us is a fresh start. Our God is a God of 2nd and 3rd chances.Salvation is one of those fresh starts, the most amazing start and way of life. Total deliverance from sins and its effects. Yes,redemption from the effects of sin, think i can testify to that. I am a sinner but by His grace every single day,hour and minute i am saved from being worse off than before i knew Him.

And to really have a Fresh start the sermon emphasized we need to reconnect back to God, return to Him ,repent and realign our every thoughts and actions to His ways. This i find is a daily choice, sometimes chore as being human we sometimes get carried away with the demands of the flesh. But isn't our God amazing, he freely determined to save the human race, and pardons our sins. The perfection of salvation is best portrayed in Romans 5: 15-20 and i cling to that truth. As i write this ,its the end of a working day,we are halfway January and i already feel tired. However that does not take away the fact that if i stop to smell the roses, i will realise that the world is full of wonderful things. Sadly as we hurry up,we most times miss them and that is why i am embracing the theme a fresh start. So help me God to make each day be a fresh start for joy comes in the morning. Here is to a blessed year in the year of our Lord 2013.