Restart Your Life

New years always connote a new beginning, a new life, a new chance to start all over again. So at the start of 2020, our message to you is: Restart your life.

- Arun gogna and Bo Sanchez

Second Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Saint Paul says that if Jesus is the center of our lives, two things happen to us. First, old things have passed away; and second, all things have become new.

But when we look at the people around us—in our communities and churches—we don’t really notice anything new with them. We don’t even notice anything new with ourselves. You may ask, “Have I really changed since I came to Jesus?”

Maybe you’re still the same stingy person you were, like the father whose son asked him for five hundred pesos. The lad said, “Dad, can I ask for five hundred pesos?” The father replied, “What? Four hundred? Three hundred is too much! Do you know how hard it is to earn two hundred? It’s so difficult to earn a hundred, how much more fifty pesos? Good thing, I have twenty pesos. Here, take it.”

Maybe you’re still a nagger to your spouse, like the husband coaching his wife who was cooking an egg in the kitchen. He stood beside her, saying, “Oops, be careful. OK, flip it, flip it. OK, turn the heat a little lower.”

The wife angrily said, “Can you please stop? Don’t pressure me! Do you think I don’t know how to cook an egg?”

The husband answered, “Well, I just wanted you to feel what I feel when I’m driving.”

Or maybe you still have vices that you can’t get rid of. How can you say you have changed—that you are already new—when you still have the same weaknesses? What was Paul talking about? He was referring to your core identity—who you really are.