Happy New Year everyone!!! This is the time that people get super excited about a fresh start. The idea of a new year makes people see that we have a clean slate for this up coming year. I don't know about you but I'm super excited for this up coming year and have great expectations for 2011. The thing I want to talk about today is the idea of the enemy trying to rob us of our excitement for a great year. I'll be honest there were things that I did last year that were wrong and I wish I would have never done them. I made sure to ask God for forgiveness and repented of those things, but so many times the enemy would love to tell you that there's no way that God could forgive you for the bad things you've done. Even though we know the truth he's really good at twisting things around. I'm starting to read the Bible all the way through this year and we see how Eve was easily tricked in Genesis. So many times the enemy will get in ours heads and tell us that what we did was too bad or that God will only forgive us a certain amount of times. One of the things I pray for you all is that God would open our eyes to the lies and plans the enemy would try on us. The truth of the matter is that God is willing to forgive us if we confess our sins to him. "IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." (1 John 1:9)
Now even though we know this, it doesn't give us the green light to keep on sinning. The thing I want to leave you with is something that a professor pointed out to me which I overlooked but it brings great comfort. When it comes to the idea of God being so mad at us because we messed up or disobeyed him is true because I believe that it upsets God when we sin, but that doesn't mean He will just leave you/give up on you. Now I'm sure we all know the story of Adam and Eve, they disobeyed God and He scolded them but did you ever notice what He did after that? In verse 21 in Genesis 3 it says that God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Now if God was super mad and wanted nothing to do with them then why would he clothe them? If He was such a mean God and if He's strictly someone who only punishes people for doing wrong then why would he take care of their needs? That's why our God is so great, yeah He will punish us for what we've done but not because He's a mean God but it's because He loves us that much. Also God isn't going to hang our sins over our heads, the Bible says he remembers our sins no more. God loves us so much that even though we will fail him and disobey him He is still there to love us and take care of us. But here's something to think about, just because He's always there doesn't mean He's your personal genie. You need to make sure that you do your part by honoring God in everything you do.
So my prayer for us today is that we would be filled with an excitement for a great new year. I pray blessing and favor for this new year. I pray for strength and faith for us to let God be God.
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