New year, Fresh start

It is interesting to me how we all feel like the slate has been swept clean at the start of the new year. As I have been talking with those in our church and seeking my own heart about what I should resolve to do this new year I find myself being challenged by the Lord. He is stirring in my heart to revisit all of the scriptures that talk about His mercies that are new and his forgiveness that is given as soon as we are repentant. He is always encouraging us to come boldly before the throne of grace. But somehow we feel like we can really take hold of it at the start of a new year. It is available all of the time every moment of every day and the best part is He is the most righteous judge and what we would hold ourselves bound to He has forgiven and released us from the moment we spoke to Him about it. He is so good and I am going to press into His heavenly thinking about me and what He has for me each day not just the start of each year!