Three Musts for a New Year

Whenever a new year draws near, most of us follow certain routines to get ready for
the upcoming twelve months. Some of us make resolutions—promises of what we’d
like to start doing and what we’d like to stop doing. Others of us look over a calendar
of the new year, jotting down notes to help us remember significant dates—birthdays,
anniversaries, holidays. Others have different routines, but all of us look forward to a
new year with the hope that our lives will be lived with purpose. No one wants to look
back at the end of the year and see squandered time. No one wants to drift aimlessly
through life, doing things that don’t have some lasting value. The difficulty lies in the
fact that many of us simply don’t know what we need to do to give life purpose. Well,
Jesus has three answers—three “musts”—for each of us.