Romans 13:11~14

11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. God is the Alpha and the Omega. the beginning and the end. God created this universe to use all things in it for His will. Everything in the universe will pass away someday after God has finished using them (2 Peter 3:8~14, Revelation 21:1~4). Likewise, man is also planned to return to the ground after his childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. God gives us all a chance to prepare for the time of soul. What should we do at this time of year? There might be someone who will finish his life in 2012. Then, his body will return to the ground and his soul will go to heaven or hell according to God's judgement (Hebrews 9:27, John 3:16). No one knows when he will die, but only God knows because the matter of life or death is controlled by Him, and not by man (Luke 12:16~21). Everything in this world comes and goes, and the time of flesh will be finished. It's the first day of 2012, but there isn't anything new in the world at all. Rather, all of creation becomes old and worn-out as time goes by. There is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:4~11), but there is an everlasting new creation in Jesus. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come." 2 Corinthians 5:17. Heaven and earth will pass away, but our faith life in the Lord Jesus is everlasting (1 Corinthians 15:50-54). God knew man's suffering on this earth because of the devil, our enemy, and curses in hell because of sin. He really loved us, so He gave His one and only Son, Jesus, and saved us through the working of His blood on the cross. Therefore, man was made new and will live happily with eternal life in heaven. Dear brothers and sisters, let's think deeply about our lives in 2011. Did we use our lives for the time of our body which will disappear? Let's be changed as a man of Jesus' blood with Jesus by the Holy Spirit, prayer and the Word of God. Let's overcome all the devil's work and give God our thanks, obedience, evangelism and loyalty, so that we can be new creations in the Holy Spirit and receive our spiritual inheritance. Don't look back on the misfortune of the past, and change your suffering into happiness and wealth. Let's live in 2012 as new creations in Jesus. Amen!