But this is a process. To be saved is an instant experience, but to live your salvation is a process in which there is always room for improvement. And the new year offers us an opportunity for a fresh start by, like, getting a clean sheet of paper than trying to erase the old sheet of paper. Second, put the past behind you for a fresh start. We normally enter into a new year with the old years' bad habits, the Bible calls it, sin.
Sin can be like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
It is so hard to honestly confront sin in us. We must put behind us the sins we have pick up from the past by confessing it. Just having New Year's resolution is not going to do it when your resolutions collide with your old years' sins. Third, be specific in order to have a fresh start. In order to have a fresh start, you must do the one needful thing to put your sins behind, and to get off on the frest start.