By Kingsley Baehr

New resolutions?
 New opportunities?
  A new lease on life?
   A new start?
    A new leaf?
     A "new and improved" you?
But it is not long before the new year becomes the same old...same old.
 Broken resolutions
  Inopportune opportunities
   Old rent on life coming due
    Old endings recurring
     New leaves, stained and torn
ONLY GOD CAN OFFER NEW THINGS THAT STAY NEW FOREVER!
He does not patch up old lives; He makes a NEW CREATION out of you [2 Cor. 5:17].
He gives a NEW HEART, a NEW SPIRIT [Ezek. 36:26], and a NEW MIND [Rom. 12:1], resulting in a NEW LIFE [Rom. 6:4], which makes you a whole NEW PERSON[Eph. 4:24]!
He adds NEW STRENGTH [Isa. 40:31; 41:1], and a NEW SONG [Psa. 33:3; 40:3], which enable you to perform NEW SERVICE [Rom. 7:6] to Him, such as you have never accomplished before!
He promises that according to His own timetable, you will be there when He creates NEW HEAVENS and a NEW EARTH [Isa. 65:17], when, in fact, He will make ALL THINGS NEW [Rev. 21:5], and you will fit right in, because you are already a NEW CREATION [Gal. 6:15]!
SO WHY CONTINUE ON IN YOUR OLD WAYS?
WHAT HAVE THEY EVER DONE FOR YOU?
WHY NOT COME TO THE ONLY GOD WHO CAN MAKE A NEW PERSON OUT OF YOU?
HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST.