Topic: New Year
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:27 KJV)
Are you ready for another year of journey for the year 2013? Even though the passage related to the national birth of Israel, it also relevant to us today. Our nation needs to turn back to our Creator. We see today what we have been created to glorify ourselves rather than God. Many churches have been sold themselves out to other religions and created a brand new religion, such as Chrislam (Christianity + Islam). Many people had been killed by natural disaster, gunman, and etc. It was the saddest moment for the nation to see those 20 elementary children and 7 teachers died by the gunman at Connecticut on December 14, 2012. We also see that this nation is already turned into the days of Sodom and Gomorrah by legalizing same-sex marriage and other ungodly activities.
This nation has walked away from the family value that each of member would decide to go their own way. Either Republican or Democratic leaders have lost their contacts with their people and God to bring the peace in America. I don’t believe that solving our national economic crisis is not the solution to the problem, but we need our heart surgeries by turning ourselves to God.
God is willing to give us new hearts (minds) if we’d let Him. We do not need to belong to this world system. It’s hard to move ourselves away from the world system. God knows our struggles. We need to keep trust and rely on God to take us through this life journey. We don’t know what 2013 would bring us. But one thing for sure: God is ready to walk with us through this brand new year.
Do you want transform your life to spend eternality with Jesus Christ? God planned to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to us to pay our sins, so we can have free access to God and develop personal relationship with Him. Would you like to have personal relationship with God? If you’d like to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I’d like to encourage you to do two simple things. First, confess your sins and invite Jesus Christ to your life. Paul said in Romans 10:9-11, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” There is no sinner prayer formula. Instead, you just talk to God at where you are now. Secondly, I’d like to encourage you to find a good solid biblical teaching church and Christian friends. They can help you to build strong relationship with God.
