New Year’s Alteration

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02
Jan '24

New Year’s Alteration

Posted on Jan 2, 2024 in Devotions |

02
Jan '24
Introduction: Are you needing/looking for some changes? Moving into the New Year calls for changes – good and bad. Truthfully, most of the time, real changes come from within. Even when it comes to “Spiritual Changes,” Jesus changes the heart.
 
Consider these two categories of changes and see if one fits you:

1. Relational changes
2. Financial changes

1. First, there are Relational changes.
 
There is not hardly a family today that does not need some Relational changes between Parents/children, Husbands/wives, Brothers and sisters, Aunts and uncles, Friends and neighbors.

Read Hebrews 12:14-15:

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”

Wrongdoing, bitter feelings, and separation plagues too many families, including CHRISTians. Forgiveness is desperately needed. Grace definitely needs to be extended. Love is greatly lacking. All of these emotional issues are not problematic in themselves when being discussed. The problem is learning to “let go” or “hold on”!

Jesus gives us the cure for this sinful disease. (Isa 1:18, 1John 1:9, Eph 4:32)

2. Secondly, we have Financial Changes!
 
Solomon wrote, “…the borrower is servant to the lender” (Prov 22:7).
 
Later he was inspired to write, “the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” (Prov 13:22). Still further he gives instructions on GIVING: “Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine” (Prov 3:9-10).

Here are some selective New Testament passages:

“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (2Cor 9:6-8).

Conclusion: Here are just two of many changes. But if we want God’s blessings, then we must follow the Word of God’s principles. Then we will see lasting changes.
 
Love y’all,
Pastor Randy Reese