When the New Year Doesn’t Seem So Fresh and New

Gold Brush Stroke

The New Year has launched, last year has faded: things undone and mistakes made are left in the past. Each one buried under fresh grace.

New Year and New Mercies

Redo

Oh, the glory of the redo!

This year dawns bright and promising.

Each moment is waiting to be filled with steps of love and beauty, peace and purpose.

Yet the path meanders, and it’s easy to step off. The redo tarnished by the same old missteps. 

Missteps and Frustrations

Condemnation, frustration, and bitterness build, for feet go where they’re willed not. Words and thoughts and actions repeat ugliness. An ugliness supposedly buried. 

“What’s the use in trying!” comes more easily to mind as day after day is greeted with blunders. 

Abide in Christ

And You softly reply:

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” (John 15:4)

Glory renewed!

Tarnish again removed. Each day once more polished fresh and new.

New Year and New Mercies

Because Your mercies are new each morning. You offer fresh grace, abundantly sufficient for each 24-hour gift. 

This gift of each day—it is not fully unwrapped by striving but by abiding.

God's mercies are new each morning. He offers fresh grace, abundantly sufficient for each 24-hour gift. This gift of each day—it is not fully unwrapped by striving but by abiding. #abideinChrist #newmercies Share on X

And in abiding with You, grace becomes fully apparent and the year truly new and fresh and beautiful. 

In abiding with the Lord, grace becomes fully apparent and the year truly new and fresh and beautiful. #grace #NewYear Share on X

Just as intended since the beginning of creation. 

Thank you, dear Jesus. 

short bursts of encouragement

 

Reflections: What does it mean to you to abide with the Lord? 

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By His Grace,

Julie

8 Comments

  1. Suzie Eller on January 8, 2015 at 8:32 am

    New every morning. That’s so hope-filled!

    • Julie Sunne on January 8, 2015 at 6:39 pm

      Yes, that’s the God we serve, Suzie, overflowing with hope.

    • Julie Sunne on January 8, 2015 at 6:40 pm

      Yes, that’s the God we serve, Suzie, overflowing with hope.

  2. Jenn Hand on January 8, 2015 at 8:40 am

    Julie. I love this post. i love the glorious gift of redo. Thanks for he beautiful reminder.

    • Julie Sunne on January 8, 2015 at 6:42 pm

      A privilege to share God’s promises, Jenn. I can’t imagine how burdensome life would be without God’s new mercies every day.

  3. Cecelia Lester (Quiet Spirit) on January 8, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    What does it mean to me to abide with the LORD? I have learned that I have to live close to Jesus in order to maintain peace in my heart, to gain more wisdom and knowledge of Him. In order to abide with Him,I have to listen for His guidance and look for Him in my day to day life.

    • Julie Sunne on January 8, 2015 at 10:53 pm

      Abiding = “Live close to Jesus” – simply and beautifully said, Cecelia.

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Julie Sunne

Hello, I'm Julie, an imperfect wife and mother of four. Life in this broken world is not always easy. Yet, joy can be found in each day through the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I find it's easy for our day's blessings to get lost in its happenings. But God's "mercies never end" (Lamentations 3:22) and His "grace is sufficient" (2 Corinthians 12:9).

May the posts and pages on this site offer you a measure of peace and encouragement.

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