This is like New Year’s every single day, you guys! A fresh start, a clean slate, a restart button of truly EPIC proportions!! God makes fresh starts easy.Įven when we inevitably mess up again, we can find comfort knowing that God forgives us each time we ask Him to. Our life-long list of failures and brokeness – a blood-stained record too massive for us to even comprehend – will be as white as pure, fresh snow. Then He told us that if we only just believe in Him as our Savior, He will forgive our sins, scatter them as far as the east is from the west, and wipe our slate completely clean. He dug us out of the hole we made for ourselves and lifted us out. God gave us all the ULTIMATE fresh start when He sent Jesus down to Earth as a baby so that he could save us from our sins. In fact, I do think we are capable of some amazing transformations of heart, mind, and body! But even these transformations have some flaws, and we are still left with a feeling of incompleteness.) The good news is that we are not alone in our brokeness! (Now, I’m not saying we are incapable of improvement.
If we rely on our own strength and ability, we are doomed to forever push the “restart” button over and over again with limited results and fathomless disappointment. This is because we are imperfect, sinful beings. Yet again, this inability to achieve perfection in our lives relates directly to our human natures.ĭespite how much we crave perfection and wholeness, we are ultimately incapable of living it out. Except now we feel worse than before because we really did want to change, but we couldn’t seem to make it happen. But for most of us, our extra motivation and lofty resolutions rarely last through January, much less the entirety of the year.Įven when we give ourselves a second chance, we find ourselves reverting back to the same ol’ same ol’. Usually, New Year’s is the season most of us choose to engage in this kind of glowing optimism and thirst for self improvement. New attitude, new job, new haircut, new exercise routine, new budget, new eating habits, new friends, new city, new car, new cleaning schedule, new….anything that might make us feel whole. So in an attempt to glue together the broken pieces of our lives, we try to press “restart” as often as we can. Surely, we’d do things differently if given a second chance. We are deep in a pit of our own making, wishing we could start over again. In our heart of hearts, we sense that the sum of all the wrongs we have done is more than we could ever fix on our own. We feel the weight of our brokenness and we long for wholeness.
I think this urge for newness relates directly to our human natures that are crying out for redemption. Restart buttons.Īnd why not? There’s something truly intoxicating about starting something new. This got me thinking about how we are suckers for newness. Wanting to get rid of the old to make room for the new. Resolving to cut out the bad and embrace the good. This seems to be what most people do for New Year’s… Looking back on the events of the year.
I’ve been doing some reflecting on this past year. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down a twisted tunnel of secrets, crimes, and scandal-at the end of which lies Decker’s deadliest threat yet.©Lauren Koch | My Slice of Joy With New Year’s just around the corner… and forces him to reckon with his future.
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Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner-Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White-and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count-from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband-but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench.
From the author of The 6:20 Man, “Memory Man” Amos Decker-an FBI consultant with perfect recall-delves into a bewildering double homicide in this new thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
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