Tarek El Mahaba Dec Magazine | Page 37

Happy New Year 2020 “Old things are passed away, behold, prayers, we ask God to show us how all things have become new.” (2 we can please His holy name, and Corinthians 5: 17) how we can live in unity with Him. We fight Satan when we repent and A New Year is a serious time in which confess our sins. It is essential that we we stand and look where we spiritually seek God’s guidance in every step of are and how we can improve on our our lives. We have to be honest and current state. It is an opportunity to serious about our lives as Christians. reflect on whatever changes need to We must evaluate our lives. We need be made in our lives; change in our to live our lives growing, yet we are behavior and our way of living to a a work in progress. Have a Blessed holier life. These changes can be only New Year! done with the help of the Holy Spirit. Our holy fathers mentioned that we are instruments in God’s hands. Yet, we have a freewill which we should submit freely into God’s blessed hands in order to fulfill His goodwill. So, the grace of the Lord may direct our choices, but we must willingly accept to be directed and cooperate with Him, and He will cooperate with us. We need to live our spiritual lives with conviction. We can have a New year’s resolution by setting a spiritual goal that we ought to think about. Through 37