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The beginning of a new year is an opportunity to start over, to begin again; to renew commitments. We make New Year’s resolutions because the year is new and it reminds us of the importance of new beginnings.
Probably one of the best stories of starting over is Jesus restoring Simon Peter after he failed miserably. We can certainly relate to failure, but how do you recover from it? Once a person has failed the enemy has a very powerful weapon; that weapon is shame. But the beauty and the power of the story is that God takes away the shame and restores Peter in His great love and renews the purpose and calling on his life.
The story begins shortly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection changes everything. It changes the meaning of the cross. Before the resurrection it represented death and struck fear in the hearts of any who looked upon a cross. But after the resurrection it became a symbol of hope and a reminder of how much God loves us. It has become a thing of beauty. That’s why we place crosses on graves.
The resurrection changed death itself. Before, the grave was the final chapter, the end of all hope, the final curtain. But because of the resurrection, death no longer is master over us, it has been conquered, it has been defeated. Our last breath is not the end; that is when life truly begins.
The resurrection gave us an eternal perspective. Before, all we could hope for was here on earth; our purpose, the meaning of life, it was all centered here, on the material, on things which are earthly. Now, because of the resurrection, all those things seem so unimportant when compared to the eternal weight of glory. We have been set free.
I read the story of a man who was radically changed because he understood how much God loved him when the Lamb of God died on the cross. When he was a young boy a neighbor gave him a baby lamb. It became his constant companion and best friend. One day he came home to find his father in a drunken rage, fixing a flat tire. Out of curiosity, the boy’s pet lamb had wandered over, but the father, in a drunken rage, killed the lamb with a tire iron. The boy was never the same; hatred filling his heart. He hated everyone and everything, including himself. Many years later, he found himself sitting in church. The pastor was speaking about the Lamb of God that willingly died on the cross.
For the first time in his life he understood love. The Lamb of God had died so he could receive God’s love; the Father’s love he had never known. It changed him; he could feel the hatred leaving his heart as he gave his heart to this love.
When you look at this chapter in the book of John, it’s about starting over; it’s about the new life that God has in store for us. It’s about faith, hope, and love.

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