The Excitement of a New Year

It is always exciting to begin a new year. I am not sure why this is such an exciting event. When you really think about it, it is just another day. Nothing really happens. In the end, God created time and space as a means for us to measure our time here on earth. God is eternal and all things of ultimate value are eternal. He is not bound by time and space.
Yet, it is exciting. I think it is because God does interact with us in the context of time and space. The heart of the gospel is that God in Christ makes all things new. For those who believe, old things have passed away and we are a new creation. Just like in the beginning, when God first separated the light from the darkness and called one day and the other night, there is something in things being made new that displays the glory of God.
After the fall, as a result of the sin of our first parents, the new creation of God was made accursed. At that moment, the new thing God had made began to wind down and decay. Since that time, we have been in desperate need of a chance to start over, to begin anew.
God saw the sin of the people and washed the creation clean with a flood. In so doing, He saved the family of the righteous man Noah. God made a covenant with Noah and gave the rainbow as a sign of the promise of a new start.
As the earth became re-populated, God called out a people to be particular unto Himself. He chose Abraham to be the father of a new nation that would be set apart as God’s people. God made a covenant with Abraham and gave circumcision as the sing of the promise of a new start.
When God’s people had forgotten their covenant with God and allowed themselves to become slaves, God heard their cries and sent Moses to lead them out of bondage. God made a covenant with His people and gave them the Law and a Promised Land as the sing of the promise of a new start.
When they again forgot their covenant with God and chose to have an earthly king, God called David and made a covenant with Him and gave him a throne as a sign of the promise of a new start.
God saw His people rebel against Him and worship other gods before God and as though they were God. He led them into destruction, captivity, and exile. Only a remnant of God’s people remained faithful, but God remained faithful even when His people were not.
When the time arrived, according to the plan of God, He sent His Son, Jesus. God separated the light from the darkness. God gave us a chance to begin anew. God washed creation clean and gave water as the sign of the promise of a new start.
God called out a people to be particular unto Himself, a nation of priest for His names sake, and gave His very Spirit as a seal of this promise of a new start. He heard our cries and gave us a new command of love and grace, and a promise of a new land as a sign of the promise of a new start. God gave a new King, a new throne, the inauguration of a new kingdom as the sign of the promise of the consummation of that kingdom and an once and for all, eternal, new start.
I do not know. There is just something exciting about a new start.