Happy New Year everyone!! I love the month of January, it is a "fresh start" and a "clean slate", I love that about it!! I'm always in a cleaning & organizing frenzy this time of year, I'm not a "spring cleaner" but a "New Year cleaner"! Something about it just makes me want to go through cabinets, closets and drawers (you know, those areas no one see's but you) cleaning out all the stuff I don't need or use anymore! A time to organize the things I do need and use, so I know where they are and can get to them quickly, when needed! In the process I often find things I forgot I had. Things that would've been very helpful to me in the year that just passed, if I would've known I had access to them! Keep that in mind, as I change thoughts for a moment!
At the beginning of year we also hear this phrase a lot, "A New Year, A New You", I have to admit, it usually makes me roll my eyes when I hear it, but God showed me something "new" about it this year and combined it with my cleaning and organizing frenzy! Not only do we need to "clean out" the things that aren't needful or useful to us in the natural & spiritual sense...BUT, He showed me that we also need to recognize the things that are there, spiritually, that maybe we forgot we had access to and have been there all along in our "new spirit"!
If you are a born-again believer...you..your spirit, the real you, has already been made "New"! 2 Cor. 5:17 (Amp.) says...."Therefore, if any person is in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation ( a new creature altogether), the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold the fresh and new has come."
Hallelujah!!! That is Good News, but how often do we forget that? The old has passed, the fresh and new has come!! We tend to refer to ourselves in the natural (our body) and the soul realm (where we are still dealing with old thoughts and habits) more than we do the spiritual realm and "your spirit" is who you really are!! God has made you, your spirit, "new"! He placed His "Holy Spirit" in our spirits when we accepted Him as our Savior! We have access to the Holy Spirit, (who is God Himself ) and everything He is and has!! Look at Gal. 5:22 (Amp.) - "But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, gentleness (meekness, humility), self control (self restraint)..." WOW....this is all available to the believer at anytime!! I don't know about you, but I could have benefited from some of these fruits in the passed year but forgot I had access to them!
Realize this "New Year" that you already are a "New You" and draw on all that is already in you and accessible to you by the Holy Spirit, who is in you!!
Until next time, may the Lord bless and keep you!
Your Sister in Christ,
Kathy
