Weekend Finisher
"Would" you and yours a blessed new year. This is speaking religiously. If you are wondering why I said "Would". well it's because the word "Wish" is associated with witches. For example, "lets make a wish", "crossing the fingers". In this, your hopes are not in God, whom we pray to by "believing or trusting in him", but in some imaginary "god" with a small "G" that you "wished" upon. To wish for God to help you is liking asking an unknown entity to contact God for you. Sorry! You have been misled again. It's a word of the gods that stand along. For the use of "wish" vs "would" read Acts 26:29.
However, it is impossible for nearly 90% of the people celebrating New Years Eve to received any spiritual blessing since tradition, which include, witch craft, demonic beliefs , whisky parties, getting drunk and every thing else one can think of over centuries, make it impossible.
Here's some things that the Church and the world practice together, like............
"Church folks eating black eye peas", "sweeping away the tracks of the first person that enter your yard", "eating collard greens and pig feet's" or "the first person that knock on your door". All these and more are for so-called "good luck".
What many do not know is that the word "Luck" evoke the Roman mythology goddess, Felicia or felicity (meaning "good luck" or "fortune"). She was the goddess of good luck, success. wealth and prosperity of the Roman Empire, Though she never existed, many Romans believed in her and erected a statue in her honor and for a while placed her face on coins. No statue exist of her today but all around the world people still refer to her as "Luck, lucky. good fortunes.
I got off for a while so let me get back to naming a few more "good luck" that the Church practice. What about opening the door at midnight to let evil spirits out. And lets not forget our old time favorite at the strike of "Twelve" of letting out a Very loud scream to scare off evil spirits. Boy, those spirits just leave America. Can't stand the noise. Twelve O one they all return. Business as usual.
Whenever I get the chance I want to point out how so involved the Church is into the world and how they are no different than the world because they are the world and the world is the Church on Sunday. That is, the same people believing in this good luck stuff are the same people operating the Church. This is why there is no power in the Church accept from that of pretending.
Celebrating the New Year
Making a resolution is the same as making a wish. Therefore, resolutions comes in play where one rely on his own self of correcting his own problem. Though depending on one's self seem out of character with some Christian, it is not out out character with God. This is because God want us, not him, to correct our faults. God is not going to change you unless you want to be changed. It is you who must work on your change.
The different's between secular resolutions and Christian changes is that we practice every day, not "one second, to make our lives better. We made a promise upon confession that we would carry our lives in a certain way and take care of this temple of God (your body).
Grateful for another New Year is thankfulness to God that you are part of this New Year 2012 because you could have died last year. This in itself is a blessing to cheer about and ask that his continued blessing be upon you all year and year end and beyond.
So, from the Poor Party Movement of Truth and politics I would every one a prosperous New Year. And you think about it!
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