A new creation. New mercies every morning. All things new. A new covenant. A new earth. The New Year will feel old ... before we know it. Probably by the third day of work, the second day of class, or the first day we fail the resolution promised.
But here is good news: Jesus is always new. Jesus is always renewing us. Jesus is in the renewal business -- remaking our world in the way it was always meant to be. And often he renews through us, by our labor, with the strength and vision he has placed inside each of us, his children.
New is not a once-a-trip-around-the-sun experience for the follower of Jesus. New is a constant, continual, never-ending state of being. New gets older every day, yet remains new.
2012. Yet another solar swing upon an earth that is aging, and also being made new at the very same time.
Happy New Year!
