Knowing Christ In the New Year

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Knowing Christ In the New Year

It is common, as each year begins, for people to make New Year’s resolutions … which is not a bad practice. As we look back over the past year(s), it is appropriate to wonder if we accomplished what we should have, if our life was as useful and happy as we would like it to be — and then, as a result of that assessment, we resolve to do better in areas in which we feel like we have failed or come up short.

But it is easy, when we go through this mental exercise of prioritizing what we want to be sure to attain in the coming year, to have our list of priorities woefully skewed toward things that in and of themselves will never bring about true and lasting success. We might resolve to lose weight, or work harder, or learn a new skill, or spend more time with our family, or even to read our Bible more in the coming year. And none of these things is bad, of course. Unless, in striving for them, we miss the one thing that matters most.

Christ is the gospel. The good news is Jesus himself.

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