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A Fresh Start

Sometimes it’s hard to believe that the blood of Jesus can truly wash away our sins and make us”white as snow”. (Isaiah 1:18) For some of us, our past is too tainted and we feel as though there is no coming back from sins we’ve committed or choices we’ve made. Some of us live with a daily reminder of past transgressions in the form of painful consequences. Some of us live each day with depression, feeling hopeless and overwhelmed.

The lie that the devil is selling … and that many of us are buying … is that there is no hope. That we’ve gone too far down to rise back up. The enemy of our soul wants us to spend our life in hopelessness and despair. He doesn’t want us to see that each morning is a chance for a fresh start. He doesn’t want us to learn to cast our burdens on the Lord (Psalm 55:22). He knows once we discover that the hope God has promised is real, we will have victory over the past. And our victory in Christ is another defeat on Satan’s record.

Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.
Lamentations 3:21-23 NLT

For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians 15:56-57

The battle is already won! The victory is final! All we have to do is make it ours by accepting Christ and allowing Him to heal us, one new day at a time.