A new you

A lot of times I wake up in the middle of the night thinking or sometimes I just can't go back to sleep. Regardless the reason I find myself flipping through the channels and for anyone who doesn't know already there isn't much on television at 3 or 4 am. THe television is bombarded with infomercials during this time. They sell things to cook with, things to wash your car with, clean up spills with, mop, vacuum, whatever you do there is something to "seemingly" make your life easier and the job a sinch. Infomercial after infomercial blasts out for only 19.95 you too can experience this blah, blah, blah, etc.....
My favorites are the ones that promise a brand new you. Especially around New Years they know the resolutions and what they will be, so they focus on those things. Try this workout machine, this workout video, or this diet and discover a whole new you!!! After all that is what new years is about, about discovering a whole new you. It's a fresh start on life, even though our bills don't change, our jobs don't change and our lifestyles probably didn't change at all we feel this false sense of being renewed. It's a fresh new start, to the same old life. Same job same routine.
In reality there is only one fresh start and that is discussed in this passage of scripture.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
So Paul tells us if we are in Christ we are a new creation. That is the only way to be reborn, and discover a whole new you. If you have fallen or backslid in the recent past then you may not feel so new. You may feel a lot like the old creation, and that is your fault.
I must confess I spend the majority of the year dieting. I watch what I eat and my intake all year until Thanksgiving and I take off from Thanksgiving to New Years(this year I only made it to Christmas before I had to get back on the diet, hehe) but I diet the other 11 months of the year. Each year it seems I put on more weight than the Christmas season before. It's scary that way, but I get back on the diet and feel like I am back at square one. Well, our relatonship with Christ is exactly the same. We fall off, we slack off on reading our Bibles and prayer, thereby making it more difficult to get back into it. Our new creation fades and we have to renew that passion for Christ. In my case it isn't the diet's fault that I put on about 8 pounds in one month, and by the same token it isn't Christ's fault that our relationships aren't what they should be.
Get that new you back to a good start this year, tackle the problems in your life and rebuild that personal relatinship with Christ and don't let it go!
Thanks for reading and have a great day!