Letting Go
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Reax Scripture
Before you take on a new years resolution you need to spend some time cleaning house.
We all want to add to our lives to make them better.
2 Peter 1:5-7 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
You can’t add without first taking away
New cloth on an old garment. Luke 5:36-39
Mathew 9:16 16 “Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.
It is not always about making everything new but sometimes reviving something old.
David Lee Murphy Dust on the Bottle
Text everything
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 Test everything. Hold on to what is good. Let go of what is evil.
The Gambler By Kenny Rogers.
Let go of the things of this world
Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
Hebrews 11:25-26 He (Moses) chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
Let go of the Your Old self
1 Peter 1:14, 15 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Peter 1:9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
Conclusion:
Most of us are gong to start cleaning up Christmas decorations this week. But as you put away those decorations what are you going to let go of in your life? Before you make your new years resolutions of all the things you want to do. Analayse what you are willing to lte go of.
Additional Study
I am doing something new don’t you perceive it?
Isaiah 43:18 & 19
