Happy New Year! We made it to 2009, and every New Year we are overwhelmed with the optimistic promises and vows made by us all. " I am going to exercise this year", " This year I promise to eat healthier!" "This year I will kiss my debt goodbye!". Of course all these promises are made with the best of intentions, and many do follow through on their commitments. However, what's really new about this year? With the boom in technology and the increase of information, human beings are pretty much the same. We still have wars, crime, divorce, the killing of babies, and we all battle with the deadly disease of selfishness. Of course goodness is seeping through the cracks of our broken world all the time. I have chosen to place my hope in Jesus the "Christ", the Savior of the Cosmos! In the midst of a broken world and fast cracking world, His words ring vibrantly in my soul " See, I am making all things new." (Rev. 21:5).
It is this hope of a real living God-Man who came into time as a part of His creation to transform time as well as to renew His creation! Just as it was revealed in the story of The Creation in Genesis, He is once again at work in the midst of chaos. Just as in the story of the Exodus he is once again at work to liberate all of creation from bondage. He experienced our brokenness and our fallenness so that he might mend us as well as lift us up! It is my hope that this New Year will be filled with renewal for the People of God that we might work with our God to Make All Things New. Happy New Year!
