New Year, Old Hope.

“Your name is higher

Your name is greater,

All my hope is in you.

Your word unfailing

Your promise unshaken

All my hope is in you.”

It’s funny how everyone talks about the New Year don’t you think. For the first week or so there’s a big frenzy about new years resolutions. Everywhere on Facebook and twitter I see posts like “New Year, New Me” or “New Year, New Relationship” or “New Year, New Body”. There’s something about that 10 seconds count down, representing the end of old habits and new opportunities. There is something about the clock hitting midnight on the 31^st of December, signifying the beginning of a new year that wakens something in everyone. I think it’s the idea of a new year that has no damage this untouched pure 365¼ days that wakens hope in humanity across the board.

I’ve never really been a fan of resolutions. Mainly because every resolution I’ve ever set I’ve forgotten by the end of January. So about 2 years back I’ve start doing this thing where I have expectations for the year. Much like resolutions I write them down with the hope that they will come to pass over the year.

I know the idea of an old hope makes no sense to anyone but it does to me. In 2012 I entered 2013 with all my hope in Jesus Christ and I entered 2014 with that some old hope.  I use the term old hope because it’s a hope that I’ve had for the past 5 to 6 years. It hasn’t changed, it hasn’t shifted it’s just grown. In psalm 139 and it speaks about the days before me being anointed I enter a new year with my hope in that fact. When it says that “The plans I have for you are for good and not for evil, to prosper and not to fail” (Jeremiah 29:10-12) my hope rest in that promise.

But it’s day 8 of 2014 and the same problems, the exact same trails I was facing for the last 6 months of 2013 are still here. In fact there getting worse. Where is that God that I believe in now?  I mean I’m still serving, still praying still believing but just need that light. Then I started playing “anchor”. And those last few lines started playing and I just remember where my Hope was.

I can say this with the fullest confidence. That despite my circumstances being exactly the same as 2013 I fully believe that I have entered a new season of my life and I’m just waiting upon my circumstance to catch up. That when God said that this year is going to be different, it shall be different because his word is powerful. On the first day of creation is said let there be light and there was light even though the sun and moon wasn’t made until 3 days later. When God has said it, it shall come to pass.

While I’m in the waiting room, while I wait to see God’s promises come to life I will believe that his name his higher and it is greater. That’s why all my hope is in him. That his word is unfailing, his promises unshaken that’s why all my hope is in him. I will worship in publicly, privately and thank him in advance. I already know that his promises aren’t probabilities or nice words in a mythical book but are facts that are live.

So yes this is a new year, but my hope is still the same. It might shake sometimes but I still choose to place it in an unfailing, faithful God.