New Year’s

Each year offers a new beginning. On a smaller scale, each week at this table, these emblems remind us that the blood that saved us continues to cleanse us from sins (1 John 1:7). Those sins crop up as periodic failures to be what he has called us to be, shortcomings from what we have aspired to become.

That “cleansing” is not one and done, nor is it something that needs to be redone again and again. Rather, we experience ongoing relationship with the One who continues to forgive us as we continue to commit ourselves to him and his purposes in daily living.