January is the official month of fresh starts. Across the world we frantically try to gather up all the loose ends we left dangling and unaccomplished from last year and stuff them into our to-do list for this year. Like hamsters on a wheel we keep running in circles getting the same disappointing results.Romans 12: 1-2 was written to encourage us to make little tweaks in our spiritual growth and gain lifelong satisfaction. After all, transformation is at the heart of our New Year's resolutions...right?
"Take your everyday, ordinary life-and place it before God as an offering." Romans 12:1 MSG
The best thing we can do is intentionally place our lives before God. Ask him to direct us daily and show us how to live a life of victory. Spend time with him in prayer, look for answers to life's issues in the bible and trust him with the outcome. When we shift our attention to what God wants, he changes us from the inside out. Our thoughts and desires mature and we learn to understand what he wants us to accomplish in the future.
Get off the wheel of good intentions and seek something better. God's resolution is to make our ordinary lives extraordinary in 2020 and beyond. "For I know the plans I have for you." Declares the Lord. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
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