How the New Year should be celebrated?

Now, the New Years celebration of my countrymen was terrbile. many of these customs are not Biblical which is celebrated with noise and disorderly. There is continuous drinking and eating and it is celebrated with fire crackers which is believed to drive away bad luck. There is a preparation of LUCK in 13 fruits and each year is connected to the year of the animals.

This is how my countrymen celebrate it when New Year comes. We know that either we like it or not, the year will change. Now how the servants of God will celebrate New Year with Biblical advises and how it was celebrated by the people of the world?

1) It is celebrated with disorderly celebration


1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;  (2 Peter 2:13)

"let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die" (1 Corinthians 15:32)

Here in this way my countrymen celebrate the New Year with disorderly celebration and excess of food and wine and drunkenness.

"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." (Luke 21:34)

2) Celebration that based on the fortune of the stars and of the years of the animals

¹³  You are powerless in spite of the advice you get.
   Let your astrologers come forward and save you—
      those people who study the stars,
      who map out the zones of the heavens
      and tell you from month to month
      what^[a] is going to happen to you.

 ¹⁴  They will be like bits of straw,
      and a fire will burn them up!
   They will not even be able to save themselves—
      the flames will be too hot for them,
      not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.

(ISAIAH 47:13-14 GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION)

This is the advice of God to those who put trust on their destiny in the year of the animals:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis1:26)

But what happened terribly to some of my country, they put their hope in their New Year in the formation of the stars and on the character of the animals so they were born like animals (2 Peter 2:12) The Chinese are well bound in superstitions during their own New Year which some of the countrymen (non Chinese) too adapted when celebrating their New Year.


"For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. " (Deuteronomy18:14)

With the lighting of the FIRE CRACKER on New Years celebration. many people are injured and perish because of this.

"Abstain from all appearance of evil. " (1 Thessalonians 5:22)

We should not based in the YEAR of the animals the destiny of the servants of God but instead we should base it on the YEAR OF THE LORD to those who believe on what He can do to him (read Psalms 37:3-7)


"To preach the acceptable YEAR OF THE LORD."(Luke 4:19)


"And I said ,This is my infirmity but I will remember the YEARS of the right hand of the MOST HIGH.(Psalms 77:10)


"Thou crownest the YEAR with thy goodness;and thy paths drop fatness.(Psalms 65:11)


"For all our days are passed away in the wrath ;we spend OUR YEARS as a tale that is told...So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.(Psalms 90:9,12)

Now How the servants of God celebrate the New Year?

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans12:2)

What is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God to celebrate New Year?

23:23And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  (Leviticus 23:23-24)

This day is holy unto the LORD your God; (Nehemiah 8:9-12)

<A Psalm of Asaph.>> Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. (Psalms 81:1-3)

The good fate is based o believing to God (Romans 4:6)

"the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, "

Till I come, give attendance (1 Timothy 4:13)