Happy New Year!
Well, this is the time of the year when we wish others a
'Happy New Year' even though we know that it is just another day
to drag on our miserable existence. We are miserable if we don't
know the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ. Now let me go a little
deeper on that comment. You might say, "Danny, if you truly
thought about that statement then you would know that there are
many people who are truly happy and most certainly not miserable
in their life and they do not know Jesus in a personal manner. I
could say yes to that logic but then again, when they are truly
alone with themselves and their minds start thinking on eternity
then the misery comes forth because they KNOW that they are not
ready to meet the Holy One whom they have denied all of their
lives. They have had themselves on the throne of their life and
even if much of it seems to run smoothly, they know deep down
that they are not ready for death, that final trip to... They
don't even say the word to themselves at times or even out loud
except when they are telling someone whom they do not agree with
to go there. They seek to make it an everyday 'cuss' word, to
downplay the agony of the place. Whether we use it in cussing or
slang or flippantly we know that there is an awful end for us if
we have rejected the God of the Bible. We know since he put it
within each of us to know, to know that he is there and he wants
us to know him in a personal manner so he can come into our lives
and change us and make us what we were meant to be. So this year
let it be a truly happy new year by coming into the very life of
God. Just ask Jesus into your life as Lord and Saviour and he
will come in and make you new and give you a purpose worth living
for. He will be with you when you go though negative, sad times
or uplifting good times. He will never leave you or forsake you.
Why do so many people go out to celebrate the new year by
getting their minds and bodies all messed up with alcohol? Is
that truly a celebration? I mean to wake up and not even know
what you did last night? Besides waking up with a hangover, you
are wondering who or if you laid with someone? Do you have AIDS
or one of the many other verneral diseases now? So many tell me
that life right here is hell on earth. I tell them that is
strange since I am living in a heaven on earth. Common sense
tells me that if a person lives for the devil and the other
fallen angels then their life would be hell on earth but if a
person lives for God then his life would be a heaven on earth
even in the midst of persecution, hatred, envy, or whatever else
Satan can come up with to try to make a Christian's life
miserable.
Many religions are unprepared for hell so they either do
away with it, or make it temporal to burn you for a while until
you are burned clean or pure. How fire does that is beyond me. Or
they make the fire some fictious thing such as burning with your
lusts for all eternity. Some even make it a name since God is
eternal and they say his name is eternal then they will tell you
that eternal hell is just a name but it isn't eternal. Some
religions say that hell is a fire but you burn up like a match
stick and you are gone. That doesn't show God's justice,
righteousness, holiness or anything else. The things that mankind
will do to deny a truth is incredible, to say the least. God made
us eternal creatures and we will live in heaven or hell but it is
our choice, the Lord lays it before us and lets us decide. We
will not have anyone to blame but ourselves if we reject his free
gift of everlasting life.
So this could be the greatest year that you have ever had.
Not only is he the Creator of the new year coming up, he is the
Creator of time itself. The Lord is eternal, he has always been
but he became a man to ransom you so invite the Lord Jesus
Christ, the one who created you, died for you and rose to make
you new into your life as Lord and Saviour. Then you will be a
new creature living in a new year.
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