NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
December 31, 2013
As this draws to a close and the new one begins people all over the world make all kinds of resolutions for things such as eating more healthy, spending more time with family, working more, working less. How many of us make spiritual resolutions to read our bibles more, reach out to the lost, pray for the sick and oppressed, increase our prayer and worship time with the LORD?
Lets celebrate this new year with a glad heart and give thanks to our LORD Jesus Christ for ALL He has done on our part to secure salvation for us, to draw us closer to Him, teach us necessary lessons, or how about causing the sun to rise each day! We are but dust - we are nothing without Him. It is all because of Him that we have our existence. He is the one who created us, He is the one to grant us another day, He is the one who pardon's our sins. Lets make our resolutions this year to the LORD. Lets decide to put Him first in our lives this year.
A friend once asked me on New Year's Eve to begin an email thankful list. She was going through a nasty divorce and finding it difficult to keep her mind focused on the positive aspects of her day. I indulged her thinking it would be an easy task, We had to find one unique thing about each day that we were going to be thankful for. That's it - just one! We would email each other our one item for the day. Well, with the good comes the bad and some days I had such a hard time finding one thing to be thankful for. I struggled to think but sure enough, each day I could find just one thing, if not more that I wanted to give thanks for.
The idea worked so well that by the end of the first year we both had a better attitude towards life, and the people in our lives that we decided to extend the exercise for another year. By the end of the second year, it was now a healthy habit to give thanks always. I found that I was more thankful to the LORD for the simple blessings, when I spent time in prayer.
He is so good to us. He never sleeps, or takes a vacation on us. We never get a busy signal or voice mail that says "Sorry I missed your call...". He is always working, always protecting, always providing us wisdom, administering angels to assist us, and the list goes on... Can we be thankful for that?
I pray that in this new year, the LORD blesses you richly. I pray that He opens your eyes to the simple blessings of each unique day, and grants you a heart of gladness and joy. May you in turn, be a blessing to those around you, that they may see the light of Christ in you and come to know Jesus as their savior. We have all heard the phrase "its the gift that keeps on giving". Though it was used as a mockery, I believe that salvation from Christ alone is the perfect gift - the gift that keeps on giving (eternal life). God grant us the boldness to speak to our unsaved family and friends that they may receive the gift of salvation this year.
Happy 2014.
As this draws to a close and the new one begins people all over the world make all kinds of resolutions for things such as eating more healthy, spending more time with family, working more, working less. How many of us make spiritual resolutions to read our bibles more, reach out to the lost, pray for the sick and oppressed, increase our prayer and worship time with the LORD?
Lets celebrate this new year with a glad heart and give thanks to our LORD Jesus Christ for ALL He has done on our part to secure salvation for us, to draw us closer to Him, teach us necessary lessons, or how about causing the sun to rise each day! We are but dust - we are nothing without Him. It is all because of Him that we have our existence. He is the one who created us, He is the one to grant us another day, He is the one who pardon's our sins. Lets make our resolutions this year to the LORD. Lets decide to put Him first in our lives this year.
A friend once asked me on New Year's Eve to begin an email thankful list. She was going through a nasty divorce and finding it difficult to keep her mind focused on the positive aspects of her day. I indulged her thinking it would be an easy task, We had to find one unique thing about each day that we were going to be thankful for. That's it - just one! We would email each other our one item for the day. Well, with the good comes the bad and some days I had such a hard time finding one thing to be thankful for. I struggled to think but sure enough, each day I could find just one thing, if not more that I wanted to give thanks for.
The idea worked so well that by the end of the first year we both had a better attitude towards life, and the people in our lives that we decided to extend the exercise for another year. By the end of the second year, it was now a healthy habit to give thanks always. I found that I was more thankful to the LORD for the simple blessings, when I spent time in prayer.
He is so good to us. He never sleeps, or takes a vacation on us. We never get a busy signal or voice mail that says "Sorry I missed your call...". He is always working, always protecting, always providing us wisdom, administering angels to assist us, and the list goes on... Can we be thankful for that?
I pray that in this new year, the LORD blesses you richly. I pray that He opens your eyes to the simple blessings of each unique day, and grants you a heart of gladness and joy. May you in turn, be a blessing to those around you, that they may see the light of Christ in you and come to know Jesus as their savior. We have all heard the phrase "its the gift that keeps on giving". Though it was used as a mockery, I believe that salvation from Christ alone is the perfect gift - the gift that keeps on giving (eternal life). God grant us the boldness to speak to our unsaved family and friends that they may receive the gift of salvation this year.
Happy 2014.
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