Back To School

Now that I’m an adult, the Back to School/Fall season is probably my favorite time of year.  Although it’s a very busy time of year, it’s still great to see the students coming back to school and breathing a little life into the campus.  For students, there’s something about a “fresh start.”  They have a new teacher to learn from.  For college students, it’s a time of moving out from under mom and dad’s roof and doing laundry and cooking on their own.  There’s just a lot of…change.  And if you read last week’s post, you know that change isn’t always the easiest thing.

But there’s something about a new beginning; a fresh start.  I remember that I wasn’t always the best student and relished in the idea of starting fresh with a new teacher.  Someone that didn’t know my faults and short comings.  Someone that didn’t know that I wasn’t big into the whole idea of “homework.”

We get the same new start from God.  2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”  What a great feeling to know that we are made new in Christ!  It’s like a new beginning.  It’s a fresh start.  It’s hitting the reset button.  Our life is made new through Him because of what He did for us on the cross.  He doesn’t hold grudges.  He freely forgives us…no matter what.