12/31/23 PUT THE HAPPY IN NEW YEAR

12/31/23 PUT THE HAPPY IN NEW YEAR

I see so many friends who approach special days, Christmas, anniversaries, holidays and New Years, with broken hearts because of broken relationships, which will never be healed or restored in this world, and some which will never be restored.

I wonder how anyone can cut ties with loved one, especially those who have loved them the most and were available in the worst of times. Then I remember the first family. Selfishness and stubbornness took possession of Adam and Eve and then Cain.

God creates people for better than that. God offers them redemption and restoration, but they turn Him down. Sin separates from God, therefore sin also separates those who love the Lord from those who love themselves, love the world, love pleasure, love the praise of men, love material treasures MORE than they love God.

Many will enter the New Year, choosing the wallow of this world rather than the wonder and glory of salvation, choosing self above all else.

I hope that those who have taken a different path than the way of holiness, will turn their eyes upon Jesus.