You are a new creation

Hi Church,

It’s 2017! (or soon to be as I write). That’s amazing. The start of a new year is always amazing. Our society gives us a chance to do what we do in the church every week. We get a chance to take a deep breath, release all that doesn’t serve us well and start again. I hope and pray that you will let go of bad habits and anything that hurts you. But often it is more effective to focus on the positive thing you want to replace it.

In the church every Sunday we are given a chance to confess, be forgiven and start again. We do this not so we can focus on all the things we do that are wrong or hurtful. We do this to offer ourselves to God, be cleansed by the Holy Spirit and start a new day, a new week, knowing that God is with us pushing and prodding us to take the next step toward peace, compassion and justice.

You are a new creation. The old has gone and the new has come (2 Cor. 5:17). The old really is gone, so let it go! Happy New Year. May you take up what is new, fresh and blessed by God.

Peace to you and yours in the New Year,

Rebecca