This New Year, Forget What Lies Behind
New Year Tension
People deal with drastically different feelings during the new year.
Some shake their heads with stress. “New year, new problems.”
Some embrace exciting opportunities and a fresh start.
Some people run from their past. Some live in it.
Some can’t wait for tomorrow. Some just want to make it through today.
Our relationship with time is often a complicated one. How should I feel about the new year? How do I process this last one?
As we live in the tension of a time between times, we will be helped by considering these powerful words from the Apostle Paul:
But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13b-14).
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