This may surprise you but, I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. Is it because I think they are unspiritual, etc.? Not at all; I simply grew tired of telling myself the same lie year after year. The 15 pounds I’d vowed to lose 10 years ago wait to greet me in the morning (and I’m pretty sure they have sublet parts of me to their in-laws).
So, in my preacher voice, what do you do when you sincerely desire to do better but refuse to keep jumping on the resolution train? Pray, plan and proceed. Why pray, because if our desires are not in line with the perfect will for our life, our plans will bring us harm. What good is it to have the riches of the world but lose our spiritual core (Matthew 16:26)? Some of us, on a daily basis, watch an unending drama played out by financially strong but morally bankrupt people and wonder what is wrong with them; wealth without honor is as beneficial as pearls on a pit bull. Why plan? Because at some point, we have to come out of our prayer closet (or from a posture of prayer) and develop a strategy for what we’ve been praying about. If we want to be debt free, it may help to open the mail and see how much debt we’re in. Why proceed? Because faith-filled word without faith empowered actions are useless (my paraphrase of James 2:17). If we want a new job, its good to pray about it but at some point we will need to apply for the job. Proceed in confidence because we’ve already prayed about it and developed a plan. What about you? What are you praying, planning and proceeding in this year? Blessings, Rev. Antoinette
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