Thoughts on the new year...

Posted by: Patience

A new year...
How thought provoking...
Entrusted to us is a whole other year...a total of 365 days to live...but how will we live?

Have you ever asked God what His will is for your life, what makes His heart rejoice over yours the most, what makes God our Father proud of us? I have, and after talking with a godly young lady this week, a verse came to my mind as soon as I hung up the phone. It was Michah 6:8...

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Driving down the road talking to my mother I verbalized this verse and my thoughts to mother, then I thought aloud, "What a wonderful verse for the new year!" She agreed.

What does God require out of my new year? It is clear to me now. This year, I am to do justly, love mercy, and the one that stood out to me: to walk humbly with my God.

 

A wise young lady once stated, "After I die, I will have a grave stone. On my grave stone will be  two numbers, the date I was born and the date I died. In between will be a tiny dash. That dash reprents my life. If that is all that my life is going to represent, what is on my tomb stone, I think the wisest thing to do would be to dedicate my 'dash' to Jesus." So she did! This young woman realized that, like to the lily the glory and beauty of this life will soon fade. How will we make this year count for eternity?

 

 

2013 will represent a new year in your life. Many have set new year resolutions, many have turned a new leaf. What will you do?
Not long ago, I discovered that everything done with out Christ's help and blessing is meaningless. A life without His Presence is void and barren. Will this nearly invisible part of your 'dash' ( year 2013) be dedicated to Jesus Christ and eternal treasures, or will this year be made full with earthly pleasure and the emptiness that follows?

 

A year that is planned and blessed by Jesus Christ will be the BEST year EVER. I can testify to that.  Ask God to give you a rhema: a special verse from God's word to you! Ask God to direct you and cause you to be pleasing in His sight. Seek the Lord and you will find Him.
God bless!

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;

Commit your way to the Lord, trust Him, and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine the the stars, and the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

Psalm 37:5-7a