As I sit here sipping on a cup of coffee on the second day of the new year, this is what I have for all of us to meditate on as we
begin our #NewYear #NewYou series for January. Reading out of the book of Psalms, I’m reminded of how many of us like to make resolutions for the new year. These are declarations stating that there is something in who we were or what we either have done or not done in the year before, that we want to change for the new year. Now, granted that most of us, I included, break our resolutions in the first 30 days!

I’m going to focus on the idea of the resolution. The promise we make to leave a part of ourselves in the past and make something new of ourselves in the new year. Psalm 130:3-4; the psalmist says: LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But You offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear You.

That’s God’s promise to us.

He promises to not keep a record of our sins. No record of our pasts. Keeping a record of sins or holding a grudge is like building a wall between you and everyone else, and it is nearly impossible to talk openly while the wall is there. God doesn’t keep a record of our sins; when He forgives, He forgives completely, tearing down every wall between us and Him. Therefore, although we fear (revere) God, we can talk to him about anything.