Stale Year Already?

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It is the fifth month of year Two Thousand and Twenty Four, by the Gregorian calendar date count (mainly used across board). Maybe still a fresh year to many a folk. But hasn’t the year turned stale and sour like the former years that we regretfully whimper over, in reality? Haven’t we sold off the fragrance of the promising year for four month’s wastefulness and folly?

It is, to me, a thing of great amazement to see people carry elephant baggage of burdensome old loads into new phases of their lives and yet think to fly like some light woodpecking bird in those periods. It sure doesn’t work that way, does it?

On that note, you and I may need to think backwards and survey our pasts. As we do I’m certain that we shall surely see a reason to reduce on time-wasting chitchats, cut off from unprofitable associates, filter off toxic old habits, organize our work desks, pick up the dust-gathering Godgiven dreams we had hoped to pursue, dust off the rusty skills or passions we had abandoned, and get to real business. 

I mean, we would begin to position ourselves for the opportunities of year 2024’s second and third quarters which begin on this historic May 1. 

Then, do you not think, with me, that you and I must now, as a matter of urgent and paramount duty, build up the bridges of Christlike righteousness in the remnant of this year or rebuild our sin-broken highways (if we had known the Lord before), re-erect our fallen pillars of spiritual royalty before the heathen nations, and totally reconcile our lives with patterns of God's will–outside of godless goings, dirty doings, purposeless pursuits, loose living, and the inevitable ruinous results we have always gotten?

On this 1st day of May, in the 2024th year of our Lord Jesus, I’m inviting you and me to a roundtable of reassessment–a point to really reason, rethink, repent and reoffer incenses of rectitude and realignment with Jehovah God, our Solid Rock–for other hopes would only fail us.

And, very importantly, I believe it is just high time we began to relay our requests in prayers to Zion for God’s mercies in the remaining days–that we may not repeat old mistakes by naivety and witlessness or even our balloonist self-confidence, so we do not meet wrenching old ends.

Finally, I wish to admonish, in addition to the foregoing, that we quickly leave the wagon of the “lips men” and resolve to be real doers for the rest of this year. Otherwise the worms of the past, lurking in the niches of time, would invade our fields at unsuspecting moments, as usual, and ravage our vines of vows and dedications with their tender grapes till our orchard of green all wilts away into destitution before the year ends.

I can almost assure you, my friend, that those annelids won’t spare us a strand–as they eat up to the last layer the treasures, talents, and time at our disposal, rob us of prospects and fortunes, and leave us worse scarred than in the past year.

So, beloved, let us now rid ourselves of the old and see this year actually bring us its freshness, goodness, and beautifulness which, all the while, may have seemed like a far cry.

Through Jesus Christ we are fruitful and more than conquerors. Amen.

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” - Mark 2:22

Happy New Month! (Q2, 2024) 🥂

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