The new year always provides another opportunity for a fresh start. We make resolutions, set new goals, attempt to do something different to gain a different set of results. Sometimes we find success and other times we lose heart. The great news is that when we choose Jesus and invite Him into the middle of our lives, he gets deep into our heart and starts doing a new work from the inside. We see our old life dying and sense new desires and a new spirit. We are dead to that old life! It is by His glorious power that we are daily renewed! Let us intentionally walk in this newness of life today!
Romans 6:4,5 ~ The Amplified Bible
We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection (by a new life lived for God).