The Journey BeginsSample

Welcome to ‘Your New Life’. In many ways calling it a ‘new life’ is strange because when you connect with God you actually discover the original purpose for which you were made. You have simply found yourself back on the route you were always meant to take. 

You were made by God, with intention. He wants you to live your best life, free of guilt, sin and other inhibitors to a life of freedom.

In the city suburb I live in there are a large number of roundabouts positioned more as speed control obstructions than as roundabouts. For this reason most people go around the roundabout the most expedient way – usually clockwise. This has become custom and practice. For a new person in town this could be interpreted as the correct practice. However, hang around for a while and you notice occasions where cars would meet each other coming in the opposite direction. It becomes clear that some are taking shortcuts and all along the correct practice has actually been to go counter-clockwise. 

Similarly, before discovering God, there are custom and practices that seem right in our lives. However, when God is placed in the equation, we often find that they aren’t that good for us. Though it can feel uncomfortable and seem counter-cultural, with God you actually begin to live a better, healthier and more wholesome way.

So how do we adjust our lives and make a connection with God? We make a decision to turn away from a life without God and the things we have done that separate us from him. We confess that we need Jesus Christ, who took this sin on a cross on our behalf. In other words we make it clear in our mind, heart and with what we say that Jesus Christ is the answer to our deepest, inner need. We make Him our Lord when His ways, wisdom, power and truth become more important to us than our own opinions, habits and direction. 

The great thing is once you have made your first connection with God you can start to grow an on-going, meaningful relationship with Him. We’ll go on to look at this over the coming days, but if you haven’t already made a connection to God, why don’t you pray this prayer: 

Dear God, I thank you that you sent Jesus Christ into this world for me. Jesus, I ask you to forgive me for the things that separate me from you. Fill me with your Spirit and power to live my life following you. 

I thank you that today I can know that I have a brand new life and that I am going to heaven. Amen.