Multitudes throughout the nation will be making New Year’s resolutions. As another year begins, they will want to turn over a new leaf and try again to reform and to do better than before.
While this may or may not be commendable, the fact is that most resolutions are soon broken and forgotten. The new leaf quickly takes on the same old stains of sin and filthy habits. What a man tries to do through his own efforts does not effect his heart, but unless the heart is changed there will be no permanent reform.
What then is the answer for man as he enters into 2021? The answer is found in Christ. The salvation that He imparts changes the heart and gives to man a new nature, which enables him to live and to live abundantly. This change is called in the Bible the new birth.
For all who are willing to acknowledge themselves as sinners before the Lord, there is hope and help in the cross-work of Christ. His salvation is an accomplished finished work. There is nothing more that we can do except to receive Christ into our lives by faith. How wonderful it would be if you would start 2021 by committing your life to the Lord. He is able to save all who come to Him by faith.
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved … I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (John 10:9-11).