to say Happy New Year!
I’ve seen a lot of talk on Twitter lately asking about goals for 2009 and all that stuff. Frankly, I hate setting goals just because it’s the new year. Resolutions just don’t ever set well with me because I rarely follow through with them.
I’m in great physical shape, and for that I’m very thankful. I’ve been working out at the gym on a regular basis for a little over a year now and I’m so glad I’ve done it. Was it a resolution? Not so much. It was starting out slow (not trying to “run” on the treadmill for 30 minutes) but more like walking for 10 minutes. The biggest thing was doing a little at a time, but staying consistent.
While I was consistent with my workout, I have not been consistent at all with some of the other things that should be more important. Like reading my Bible. Praying. Following God’s lead.
Many Christians are sharing verses for the year. I’m going to share the one I’m going to focus on this year:
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
— Matthew 6:25 – 34 (NKJV)
Ok, so I threw in a few extra verses. They are all so relative to the one I’m going to focus on. Because seeking first (not last, not after Twitter, not after blogging) God is what I need to do every single day of 2009.
I pray that you and your family are safe this New Year’s and that God blesses you in ways you never thought possible in 2009. Happy New Year!
Great post … and very relevant in my own life. Here’s my verse for the year:
Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
The key words being seek and enquire. They are things that I am responsible for doing. I have to do the seeking and enquiring, and that will require diligence on my part. Thanks for the reminder and encouragement about where my head and thoughts should be … it’s so easy to get distracted away from what is most important in life; for without God, there would be no life.
Terry