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All Things New – VOTD.01.02.17

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Post published:January 2, 2018
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And the one who sat on the throne spoke to me and said, “Consider this! I am making everything to be new and fresh.” Revelation 21:5

One of the things that runs through our New Year celebration is Hope. Somehow, starting again gives us hope as we consider all that God has for us in 2018. God promises us that He is continuously making things new for His glory and for our good.

1) God restores us to a right relationship with him through the gift of forgiveness and new life in Jesus. He restores relationships between people. And He even restores days and years that have been lost due to our own sin (Joel 2:25). That’s one of the greatest evidences of the extravagant nature of God’s mercy. Not only does He renew our lives and redeem our future, but He also redeems our past.

In the New Testament, we see Jesus live out a lifestyle of restoration. He restored sight to the blind, the ability to walk to the crippled, hearing to the deaf, and new, clean skin to the diseased (Mk 8:22-26; Matt 9:2-8; Mk 7: 31-37; Lk 5:12-25). In all of these accounts, Jesus didn’t just heal a physical condition. He restored lives, giving hope to broken people. (more…)

The Old is Gone the New has Arrived – VOTD.01.01.18

Post author:Wheels of Glory
Post published:January 1, 2018
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His divine power has given to us everything that we need for a godly life, through our knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, through which he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them we may participate in the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world caused by sinful desire. 2 Peter 1:3,4

Today we celebrate a new beginning, and that seems to be the theme in today’s verses. Everything we need to reflect God’s true nature has already been given to us (past tense), so we move out in God’s own nature.

Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a love gift from Father God—all because he sees us wrapped in Jesus (Eph 1:3). So everything we could ever need for a life of godliness (the goodness of Jesus expressed in and through us), has already been given to us as a gift because He is powerful enough to do it. All this was lavished on us through our experience of knowing Him.

He called each of us by name, inviting us to experience His goodness for ourselves. That’s a new year resolution I think we can all live with: Experience God’s goodness for myself.

Through this amazing expression of God’s glory and goodness he has imparted to us these fantastic promises: 1) participation in Jesus’ own nature; 2) escape from the corruptive influences and desires that drive this world we live in. (more…)