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“A New Year, A New You”
Categories: Minister's Corner“ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
Are you ready to start the New Year? I am! What are you wanting to accomplish out of this new year? 2021 is going to be a great year for our Fulshear Family.
All things are new in Jesus and that is hope for you and me. Consider for a moment how it all began.
According to Matthew, history puts things into perspective. It is also a confirmation of TRUE EVENTS.
Ancestral history (in the story of Jesus) places things in proper order biblically. In Matthew chapter one we get to see the lineage of Jesus. This is how “THE WORD BECAME FLESH” (John 1:14). Matthew and Luke describe in greater detail how it happened.
When you and I open the pages of the New Testament, we begin to see the earthly story of Jesus. Four separate accounts of the one gospel of Jesus Christ with 89 chapters/3779 verses (only 4 of those chapters/180 verses deal with Jesus’ birth/childhood) that tell His beautiful story from the cradle to the cross. John tells us there could have been much more written about Jesus (John 21:25) but what has been written is sufficient (John 20:30-31).
It all begins with genealogy. One might think that the beginning of His life is not that significant because little information is given (again only 4 chapters and 180 verses). However, that thinking would certainly be a false assumption. It is important for us to understand that the focus is mainly on His redemptive work on the cross and His commitment to God’s plan for saving all of humanity.
We read the names, which represent individual lives and stories of imperfect people but find their connection with HIS-STORY, the perfect Savior of the world. Matthew shares the good, the bad, and the ugly in the lineage of Jesus by telling of men like David and a woman like Rahab and their connection to the beautiful story of Christ.
This is a new year and it can be a new you. Decide now to live in Christ faithfully by loving and serving Him in full assurance with a living hope. “...Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
