A whole new world, 2012!

Sometimes I think its funny how humans think. We love new things, for example I know I used to love going back to school and getting new exercise books! acres of Fresh clean pages with no mistakes or work I am not fully satsified with. How simple these types of thoughts and pleasures are but how profound and how deep is the need we have the longing to be made perfect. We long for order and rightness we long to be clean.

But sad to say all these things are futile and empty, because if we look at our own history we should know that mistakes and imperfections will come. It is therefore irrational (humanly speaking) to hope for perfection, which is the source of our joy at comtemplating things like new year.
The world is in bad shape economically, environmentally and huge natural disasters are happening all over the planet with alarming freqency. Wars, death, starvation, sickness suffering it all won't disappear just because we get a new calander in a few days time. No mankind wills still carry all these burdens into next year and all the years afterward unless something changes.

Who should we put our hope in who will not fail? Who can make and end of this woefull life and grant us a new life in which these things are but a painful memory, which can be forgotten, instead of an every day reality.

Only the sure promises of our Mighty savior can give us course to trust and a hope that will not fail.
The eternal life He has promised will not be marked by woes and cares of this life, all our tears he promises to wipe away.
This is the new world we long for not new books or new years!
I choose to put my hope in someone, not something and not just anyone or anyman but the only man who has ever delivered completely according to His word. Jesus. Come Lord Jesus come.