Afresh

 

    Afresh is an adverb.  It means to start something again from a new perspective or like it was before.  Depending on the situation, you have the choice on how to approach new beginnings.  It can be something simple as rewording an email or as complicated as trying to repair a relationship.  The point is that you are a trying.

    As we are getting ready for another week to begin we can remember that we have control over how we think about the upcoming week.  We can dread it.  We can look at it as challenges that will be overcome.  We can be excited.  Or we can just take it as it comes.  

    Afresh is only mentioned once in the Bible.  It is talking about salvation.  Once you have salvation, you can't renew it again.  You can grow and strengthen it, but once you have it you never loose it.  If you find that you have fallen away from the closeness that you once had with the Holy Spirit, then you are showing contempt for what Jesus has done.  You don't start afresh, but you start where you are to appreciate what you have and move back toward the close relationship.

    Every aspect of life has purpose.  If it feel like there was no purpose for some point in your life, then you are wrong.  God is using it somehow.  Everything that happens to you affects your perspective in life.  It helps make you the person you are.  It will reveal your salvation or your carnal heart.

    You can be cultivated by it  and accept blessings.  Or you can grow hard and prickly.  If you grow hard, then it was all worthless.  If you turn away from the truth of Jesus, then reject salvation.  You are doomed to your own condemnation.

Hebrews 6:4-8