Lam 3:21-23 NKJV This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. 22 [Through] the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 [They are] new every morning; Great [is] Your faithfulness.

Here we are in a new year and a new decade. It is still hard for me to believe that we are now 20 years into the 2000s! As the old saying goes, time just keeps marching on.

I love January for several reasons. First, it is my birthday month, the birthday month of my best friend, and also that of my father. Second, I love the fresh start that seems to come with the beginning of a new year. The reality is that little has changed from December 31^st to January 1^st, but it feels different for some reason.

A new year marks a new beginning, a time for us to reground ourselves in the love and hope we have in Jesus Christ. I believe that God loves to use new seasons to remind us that He loves to continually make us new, and there’s no time better to start than with a new year.

You and I have hope that is founded in the compassion and mercy of our God. 2020 brings with it a time of perspective on what needs to be rebirthed in us. Whatever sin has entangled us in the past year does not need to gain victory over us in the new. No matter the disappointment, hurt, struggle, or trial, we have a new year and a renewed hope in the God of our salvation.

It is God’s desire to meet you where you are today. He longs to meet you at your point of weakness and pain and wrap you in His love – just knowing He is with you, desiring to walk with you in the newness of life. His mercies are new every morning! So, run to Him and not away. Run to Jesus with your struggles and heartache. Run to Him with your pain and disappointments. Open your heart to Him and receive the newness of life in this New Year.