Your New Year Invitation

Remember Your Dignity: A New Year Invitation

As we stand at the threshold of a new year, the Church offers us a quiet but powerful reminder, we are not who we once were. In Christ, we have been brought from death to life, from darkness into light, from old ways into a new creation. This is not poetic exaggeration—it is the deepest truth about us.

If God has taken pity on us in love, if He has breathed new life into us through His Son, then the question becomes simple and searching: How will we live in response?

The turning of the year is a natural moment to take stock of our hearts. Not in the sense of making resolutions we’ll forget by February, but in remembering our dignity—our true identity as people who share in God’s own life. What habits, attitudes, or patterns belong to the “old nature” we’ve outgrown? What ways of thinking or acting quietly pull us back toward the shadows we’ve already been rescued from?

And just as importantly: What new practices, desires, or commitments might help us live more fully in the light of God’s kingdom?

This year, instead of asking What do I want to accomplish? perhaps we begin with a different question: Who is God inviting me to become?

May this season be a time of gratitude, clarity, and courage—a moment to throw off what no longer reflects Christ and to step boldly into the life He has already won for us.