Everybody Makes New Years Resolutions.
Everybody makes New Years resolutions, its just part of bringing in the New Year. We say we are going to start doing this or stop doing that but before too long we have forgotten what it was we were going to start or stop doing. Making a decision to change is a good idea but many times the reason we fail is because we try to do it in our own strength but God doesn’t care how good we can be but just that we will turn everything over to Him because, “When we are weak then we’re strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Today is a brand new day and a brand new year. We start off with a clean sheet of paper in which to write the story of our life. It’s our autobiography and could be entitled “Life is Beautiful.”
Remember the 1997 Italian tragicomic comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benign entitled, “Life is Beautiful?” The movie is set in 1930s Italy; a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
We decide (humanly speaking) how each chapter starts and how it ends, and then extrapolating that out to the whole book. It’s not too late to start. You can start now.
Every day is a new page, a new dawn. And a new chance to make a difference in your life and others. I say “others” because we were not created just for ourselves. We were created to live out our lives before Him and to please Him. He is a loving God and does have a beautiful life in store for us.
Every day is a new page, a new dawn. And a new chance to make a difference in your life and others. I say “others” because we were not created just for ourselves. We were created to live out our lives before Him and to please Him. He is a loving God and does have a beautiful life in store for us.
Remember the little kid’s story of the Gingerbread man?
It’s a story of a little girl in the kitchen with her Mom making gingerbread cookies. One gingerbread man jumps off the baking sheet and runs away. The little girl runs after him and all the while he is saying (say it with me) to her, “Run, run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!”
Soon he out ran her, tired and upset the little sits down on a park bench crying. While walking home she notices him in a bakery window. She was so happy she rushes into the bakery, runs up to the counter and says, “That’s my gingerbread man there in the window.” The shop keeper tells her, “If you want him it will cost you thirty five cents.” She said “but you don’t understand, I made him.” The baker replied, “If you want him it will cost you thirty five cents.” She ran home broke open her piggy bank and rushed back and paid the thirty five cents, ran to the window, grabbed him, and hugged him then said, “First I made you, then I bought you, now you are really mine!”
This is what Jesus Christ did for you and me some two thousand years ago. My question would be to you is, have you yielded your life to Jesus Christ yet? It could be you don’t believe the bible or you do believe it but have not as yet submitted or come under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. You may have not counted the cost of following Jesus Christ. You may have walked down a Church aisle once, you may even be sitting in Church, and you may be a good person. You may be helping others, feeding the poor, homeless, broken, bruised, and bleeding. You may even be that person. I want you to know there is help for you today if you will only submit your life to Jesus Christ.
He wants you to know, first He made you then he bought you.
The price He paid was Him being nailed to a cross, and as he hung there with His blood drenching the soil like spring rain, He was saying, I have done this for you! We don’t know when our life will be required of us. This is the day, now is the time to make that decision and to ask Him to save you from eternal judgment, and ask Him that He might give you eternal life. He is waiting. Remember you don’t know how long He will wait.
The price He paid was Him being nailed to a cross, and as he hung there with His blood drenching the soil like spring rain, He was saying, I have done this for you! We don’t know when our life will be required of us. This is the day, now is the time to make that decision and to ask Him to save you from eternal judgment, and ask Him that He might give you eternal life. He is waiting. Remember you don’t know how long He will wait.
- Duane Jones
1/1/2016 - 11:52:16 pm
1/1/2016 - 11:52:16 pm
