Our Daily Bread Devotional 2 January 2022 | Fresh Start Effect
Read today devotional of Our Daily Bread dated Sunday 2 January 2022 titled Fresh Start Effect written by Sheridan Voysey to uplift your spirit and soul for the new year.
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Topic: Fresh Start Effect
KEY VERSE:
[Put] on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:10
Today’s Scripture:Â
Our Daily Bread Devotional 2 January 2022 | INSIGHT
When Bryony turned thirty, she was sad to still be in a sales job she’d never liked. She decided it was time to stop procrastinating and find a new career. For David, New Year’s Eve had him looking in the mirror vowing this would be the year he lost weight. And for James, it was watching another month pass without his angry outbursts decreasing. Next month, he promised himself, he would try harder.
If you’ve ever vowed to change at the start of a new month, new year, or a major birthday, you’re not alone. Researchers even have a name for it: the fresh start effect. They suggest that at calendar points like these we’re more prone to assess our lives and try putting our failures behind us to start over. Wanting to be better people, we long for a fresh start.
Faith in Jesus speaks powerfully to this longing, offering a vision of what our best selves can be (Colossians 3:12–14) and calling us to leave our past selves behind (vv. 5–9). It offers this change not by decisions and vows alone, but by divine power. When we believe in Jesus, we become new people, and God’s Spirit works in us to make us whole (v. 10; Titus 3:5).
Receiving salvation in Jesus is the ultimate fresh start. And it doesn’t need to wait for a special calendar date. Your new life can start right now. By: Sheridan Voysey
Bible in a Year: Genesis 4–6, Matthew 2
REFLECT: How have you seen the fresh start effect at work in your life? What’s stopping you from receiving God’s gift of a new life now?
PRAYER:
Jesus, I give up my own plans to follow Yours. Please give me a fresh start!
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Thank you for reading Our Daily Bread Devotional 2 January 2022 titled Fresh Start Effect. Have a great Sunday morning.
