New Years Eve is a traditional celebratory time when champagne bottles are popping at the stroke of midnight to usher in the new year. The first New Years Eve recorded was celebrated by the Babylonians around 2000 B.C. in Mesopotamia. In 45 B.C., as part of the Julian calendar, Julius Caesar instructed January 1st as the start of the new year. He chose that day to honor Janus the Roman God of the beginnings who was known to have two faces looking both forward and backward signifying the ability to see both the past and the future. Other countries such as North Korea, Thailand, Ethiopia, Israel, Iran, Japan, Saudia Arabia and the Mayas celebrate it at a different time due to their calendars.
A new year is a good time for new beginnings. A good time to make resolutions and make sure to stick to them. For me, any day is a good day to make a resolution. Not only on New Years Eve. It just takes the motivation to start and the will to endure it. However and where ever you celebrate New Years Eve, make sure to thank the only one true God for another year and to keep him in your life all year round. ” Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always” (1 Chronicles 16:11).
Happy New Year!
