Make Sure Sin Is Divorced Before The Year Ends

How can we make a new year better than the former one?

People in different countries have different ways to prepare for entering a new year  Some use vision boards to have clear and specific goals to achieve . Others change plans to achieve various results.

Personally, I found in addition to the above, separating myself and my family from certain people and relationships makes all the difference in changing the outcome of a new year. We had also to change churches and pastors to move on in life.

Yes, it is important to change habits, patterns, lifestyle, and other things but as long as a bad relationship is not cut off all the other things won't work.

It's like the little leaven that Jesus talked about that will affect the whole year negatively.

In some cases, it could be a real divorce, in other cases, it may be deleting a social media account that is taking so much time and energy without really adding anything to your life. Sometimes its 

friendship or relationship that is toxic.

In some cases, it could be a job with a bad environment that is difficult to do anything about so you just separate yourself from it and trust God to give you another job in a good environment.

This principle is biblical and was given as a commandment from God to the Israelites to not mix and separate themselves from the surrounding nations unless they learn their unbiblical habits and cause them to sin against God and bring the curse upon themselves as a result.

Jesus separated himself from his disciples to have alone time with God.

He separated 12 men from other people to mentor them for 3 years and they had to separate themselves from everything and everyone to follow him.

He separated himself and his disciples from the religious crowd and chose the simple people to minister to.

He also separated himself from sin to fulfill his assignment successfully although he was tempted his whole life he sinned not.

For some people who are totally dependant on others for their well-being, it may take more effort to cut off some relationships especially in most cases the wrong ones do not leave voluntarily so some tough decisions must be made.

It is the same principle of pruning of the plants that Jesus used to teach the people about cutting off the dead parts so the new can grow.

This is an important thing to practice so that life can go on and we accomplish the best plan God has for us.

Ask God to show you which thing, relationship  or person needs to go so that you can achieve much more in the coming year than any year before