Created 12/29/2015
Thanksgiving is a distant memory and the memories of Christmas cling for it’s very life, all the while the New Year creeps and crawls closer with all of her expectations, hopes, and challenges. With the New Year just a few days off I wonder about this upcoming year and the new canvas of life I get to paint. How will my canvas look by the end of next year? Ok, maybe that’s too ambitious. Maybe, just maybe, I should look at my canvas day by day or hour by hour. Will my canvas be something I can humbly give my LORD without feeling ashamed? Will my words be filled with mercy and grace to those I meet each day? Will my actions be those of kindness and charity? Or in a moment will I latch out in bitterness and refuse forgiveness? It is so EASY to say I am going to be more like my Savior this year than last, but not as easy to live it out each moment of the New Year.
Yes, I need to have some goals in life. I should loose some weight, work on some career goals, be a better mother and wife, and I definitely should drink more water and less soda pop. Those all are good goals, but this year I want to aim for a better goal and not just settle for good. So to that end, I have wondered and pondered how I am going to paint this canvas of life that God gave me to paint. I think I found my better New Year’s Resolution:
Philippians 2: 1-5 KJV “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”
What about you? Good or better resolutions? What will your life’s painting look like when you give it to your LORD?
