Great advice for the 2023 New Year from God’s “Operator’s Manual for Humans” (aka, the Bible).

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

In keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you.

Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator … the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.

And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Go, stand in the temple courts … and tell the people the full message of this new life.

Re 21:5, Is 43: 18-19, 2Pe 3:13, 1Pe 1:3-4, Ga 6:15, 2Co 5:17-19, 2Co 5:19-21, Ro 6:4, Ac 5:20

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