
With a new year upon us its always a great time to reflect on the passing year and be resolved to make some changes for the coming year. Still, how long do New Years Resolutions really last? They say that gym memberships are at a yearly high in January only to fall to a low by June. Diet books fly off the shelf now only to collect dust later. But when it comes to reflecting on your faith, and resolving to grow in God’s grace, you really don’t need to wait for a New Year.
Lamentations 3:22-23 – Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
Jeremiah the prophet wrote those words around 590BC. Jeremiah was a great preacher to Israel, one who, although called by God only a few people listened to his message of repentance. He was persecuted and rejected by his own people even as he spoke the truth to them. Still as he reflects on his life and perhaps the year gone by, Jeremiah comes up with a great conclusion: God’s mercy is new every morning and he is always faithful.
For us in the twenty first century, we can come to that same conclusion. You don’t have to wait for a New Year to turn to God or return to your faith. The mercy of the Lord is still new every day.
Perhaps this past year was hard for you. Maybe it was just a weird year, or maybe you had a great year. No matter what 2011 was like, God is still calling people to himself. When sin separates people from a relationship with God, Jesus came to bridge the gap between man and God.
John 10:10 (Jesus said) “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Life and the devil want to rob you of a relationship with God, but Jesus says, I am here to bring you to a right relationship with God. By trusting in him, by believing that he came to justify those who are far from God, by turning away from things that are not pleasing to God – you are born of God’s Spirit and the mercies of God are yours.
This coming year could be a great year or maybe the Mayan calendar is right and it will be the end. Be that as it may, whenever a man or a woman turns to the Lord in sincerity of heart, his mercies are new. Christ came to usher in forgiveness that mankind can be right with God. He came to give abundant life now as you can live in relationship with God, and he came to give eternal life to all who trust in him. God’s mercy is there for all who receive his gift.
I hope 2012 is a great year for you all, we are praying about some direction for the fellowship, and excited about the new things that God is doing. Mostly I pray many will come to the mercy of God and say with Jeremiah “Great is His faithfulness!”
God’s Grace to you all





























