Are you ready for the new year?  Are you ready for all the usual hashtags?  Are you ready for your gym to get really crowded?  It happens every year.  January first rolls in and everyone resolves to change.  Stop bad behaviors; begin new ones.  Lose some weight and start eating healthy.  After all, it’s a new year so it’s a new me.

The problem is that a new year doesn’t make a new me.  It won’t be long before we’re overeating, smoking again, and come mid-February you’ll have your pick of the treadmills at Planet Fitness or Gold’s Gym.  The new year simply makes a new calendar and the hassle of correcting all our paperwork when we write the wrong year for a few weeks.

The only way we truly change is to recognize and accept the true changing force.  The power of God can perform true transformation.  He provides a power agent of change to transform us.

Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

If the new year motivates your transformation to be God’s child, use it.  But don’t wait for January first to come to God.  Don’t delay.  Make the change now and stick with it until the final transformation when we put on our incorruptible bodies when the Lord returns.