There is a popular definition of insanity that is attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others. It goes like this:
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Every January 1st, most of the world celebrates insanity. Times Square is filled with people who watch a crystal ball descend as midnight approaches. Millions more watch on television. When the ball ends its journey a massive celebration erupts. People are excited about the promise of a new year. They hope the disappointments of the previous year will be replaced by better times in the new year. They believe that their new resolutions will work better than last year’s.
But the jubilant celebrations too often fade into throbbing hangovers, just like last year and the year before that, doing the same thing over and over again. People believe they can make things better by their own effort and will. What promised to be new has become old again.
The global celebration of the New Year is one of the enemy’s most effective weapons. Believing that things will get better apart from submitting to Christ is a cruel deception. It truly is a painful, bewildering
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