Blessing for the New Year
Yahuah calls you to walk in integrity, not only in public but within your own house and heart. His standard is steady, seen in the Psalms and echoed through Yeshua — not performance for others, but a heart surrendered to Him in every season. As the new year begins, may your feet find the ancient paths and your heart be set ablaze with love for His Torah.
Psalm 101
A Psalm of David · “Pledge of Integrity”
to you, O Yahuah, I will make music.
Oh when will you come to me?
I will walk with integrity of heart
within my house;
anything that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.
I will know nothing of evil.
I will destroy.
Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not endure.
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.
shall dwell in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall continue before my eyes.
all the wicked in the land,
cutting off all the evildoers
from the city of Yahuah.
— Psalm 101:2
Companion Scripture
Colossians 3:1–17
If then you have been raised with Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated at the right hand of Elohim.
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in Elohim.
When Messiah who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
On account of these the wrath of Elohim is coming.
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Messiah is all, and in all.
Put on then, as Elohim’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as Yahuah has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
And let the peace of Messiah rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to Elohim.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of Yeshua, giving thanks to Elohim the Father through him.
— Colossians 3:14