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Tomorrow is the close of 2015. The year has flown and we now will have to get used to writing 2016 on everything.
As we begin a new year and chapter in our lives, we have the chance to start anew.
But this opportunity is not just because we are turning the page on a new year.
When God gives us hope and a future (Jer. 29:11), the hope is for redemption and the opportunity to begin each day with a clean slate. His mercies are new every morning and great is His faithfulness (Lam. 3:23).
Satan is the destroyer who would love to keep us trapped in the discouragement and guilt of our failures.
However, God is the Great Redeemer who pulls us out of the muck, providing us the hope to start anew. We have been born again and equipped with the Spirit to walk in newness of life.
It is never too late. And we never run out of chances to be washed by the blood of the Lamb, forgiven, and made new.
What a blessed hope to celebrate!
I’m done. I’m out. I quit. I have lost all hope.
Have you been there? Done that?—if even for a moment.
There are some situations that feel truly hopeless.
The famine and siege the Israelites faced in 2 Kings 7 even led two women to decide to eat their sons! (Later, one mom reneged on her decision – 2 Kings 6:26-29.)
What seemed a desperate situation, God redeemed by making the Arameans, who had the Israelites under siege, flee. Then Israel, at the prompting of four lepers, enjoyed the riches and spoils the Arameans had abandoned.
Abraham, the father of many nations? He and his wife were old and childless—quite the hopeless situation. But against all hope, Abraham, in hope, believed.
Abraham’s son of promise did not come until the covenant had been made between God and Abraham. Ishmael, Hagar’s son, was born before Abraham was circumcised. Actually, father and son were circumcised on the same day (Genesis 17:26). And in the very next chapter, we see the angels of the Lord visit Abraham and promise that by that time next year, he and Sarah will bear a son.
When we trust God and enter into covenant with Him, God takes impossible, hopeless situations, and has the power to bring about outcomes beyond what we ask or imagine (Eph. 3:20-21). Just ask Abraham and the Israelites.
What hopeless situation can you bring to Him today?
