It's no accident that a new year so readily inspires us to break with the past and press into something fresh for ourselves. This is another one of those "ways of God" still evident throughout the earth, because what resonates in our hearts this time of year is an echo of two fundamental things that He has carried in His heart for all eternity. First, nothing we can ever resolve to do, feel or say is adequate to separate us from the "yuck" of our past--but our wanting to be freed from it reflects His very passionate desire to be near us and to see us unshackled from our guilt and failure. That's why He's taken upon Himself the full responsibility of giving birth to an entirely new "you" (not just a revamped old "you") the moment you ask Him to. And that new "you" will never sin--and never die...