"This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day.
*Though there is no real difference between it and any other day, *yet in our mind and thought it is a marked period, which we regard as one of the milestones set up on the highway of our life.
We ought not, as men in Christ Jesus, to be carried away by a childish love of novelty, for we worship a God who is ever the same, and of whose years there is no end.
In some matters "the old is better."
There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.
In the things of God the old is ever new, and if any man brings forward that which seems to be new doctrine and new truth, it is soon perceived that the new dogma is only worn-out heresy dexterously repaired, and the discovery in theology is the digging up of a carcase of error which had better have been left to rot in oblivion.
In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun."
(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Yet, as I have already said,
--there has been so much evil about ourselves and our old nature,
--so much sin about our life and the old past,
--so much mischief about our surroundings and the old temptations, that we are not distressed by the belief that old things are passing away. Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." (Revelation 21:5)
Charles Spurgeon
*Though there is no real difference between it and any other day, *yet in our mind and thought it is a marked period, which we regard as one of the milestones set up on the highway of our life.
We ought not, as men in Christ Jesus, to be carried away by a childish love of novelty, for we worship a God who is ever the same, and of whose years there is no end.
In some matters "the old is better."
There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.
In the things of God the old is ever new, and if any man brings forward that which seems to be new doctrine and new truth, it is soon perceived that the new dogma is only worn-out heresy dexterously repaired, and the discovery in theology is the digging up of a carcase of error which had better have been left to rot in oblivion.
In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun."
(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Yet, as I have already said,
--there has been so much evil about ourselves and our old nature,
--so much sin about our life and the old past,
--so much mischief about our surroundings and the old temptations, that we are not distressed by the belief that old things are passing away. Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." (Revelation 21:5)
Charles Spurgeon
