There are many great words spoken in the Bible. There’s hope. Love. Peace. Salvation.

One of the best words in the whole Bible may not be one of the first words that come to mind. But, I am thankful when I read the word NEW.

What an amazing gift and promise. We are being made New. We get a new day each day. And today, we get a new year and a new decade.

I don’t think this means that God expects us to fill it will goals and resolutions necessarily. But if those are on your heart, that’s great, too.

What I love about the New Year, is that it reminds me that God gave me the gift of New.

Here are 7 Bible Verse to keep with you throughout the year to remind you that God promises we are being made new (each day).

God Can Make You New: 7 Verses and 7 Promises

1. Mercies are New Every Morning

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23)

Wake up! Each morning is a gift of new mercies. Each day a new opportunity to live in God’s faithfulness.

2. I am Doing a New Thing

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:18-19)

We get to join God in a new thing. We do not have to be pulled down or dwell on the past.

3. We are Renewed Day by Day

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (2 Corinthian 4:16-17)

God’s encouragement is all around us. Day by day we are renewed, we are being made new, despite our troubles. And best of all? Our future is glory.

4. The Old Has Gone

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)

If you’ve ever been haunted by your past, or your families’ past, or any past, you too can be new. God promises us that anyone who’s in Christ is a new creation being made new; the old is gone. Christ’s life and death can make you new.

5. You Are a New Self, so Take Off Your Old Self

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (Colossians 3:9-11)

What a promise! We have the power, through God, to be new. A new self. We can take off our sinful nature. Christ is in us, and we can live as a new self.

6. A New Birth of Hope

7. ALL Things Made New