Happy New Year Devotional

First. Alpha. One. Alef. Beginning. The Word.  

A New Year represents so many things for us: 

a fresh start, goals and resolutions, new outlook, renewed hope, good wishes for all. 

However, we bring our same old self into this new year. So, how can we hope to be any different? How can we believe something different will happen this year from what has happened in the past? The difference is not in us. It is in who He, our Savior, was, is and always will be. He said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." In other words, our best intentions are fodder for self deprecation if we are not focused on surrendering ourselves to the will of our Lord. So, it is not my way, my truth or my life, but Him in my life.

Dear Father, Thank you for bringing me to this new year. Thank you for loving me enough to bring me to this time in my life and in all of history. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your creation. I surrender myself and my time here and all of my intentions to your will for this day and for this new year. I pray that I will become less and you will become more in my life, Immanuel. Please show me how to grow still, listen and obey. Please guide me in studying, understanding and living your Word. Adonai, please make me a willing instrument, a co-creator with you and for you to write the words and sing the songs that only my soul could write and sing. I praise you, Lord, and thank you for all that you are. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I pray, and by the power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.