SEMPER FI

Therefore if any man be in Christ,

he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Corinthians:5-17

On April 17, 2011, I became a new creature in Christ.  My life has been forever changed.  To God be the glory.  On this last day of 2011, I look back and I know that this has been the most important year of my life, my birth in Christ.  I know that I will have eternal life with God because my Savior Jesus Christ paid the price for me.  He took my sins upon himself and he gave me his righteousness.  And when the transaction was finished, my debt was paid in full.  And on that day in April, when I submitted myself to God and accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior, my sins were washed away and I truly became a brand new creature.  A new talk, a new walk, a new look, but most important...a new life. 

As I look ahead to this new year approaching, 2012, I simply want to remain faithful to God, to serve Him, and to submit myself to His will.  In 2 Timothy 4:7-8 it says, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:  and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

Did you know that the marine motto "Semper Fi" is Latin for "always faithful"?  I pray that I will fight the good fight and that I will be always faithful to God...until the end.

Semper Fi

~ Inspired by "A Daily Word" by Paul Chappell