I am thankful to God for allowing me to live to see the approaching of another new year. It has not come yet, but standing in God's grace that I will see it.
I stopped making resolutions and goals for some years now as I have found out for myself and from other's testimonies that it mostly doesn't work. So why do it?
Instead, I started to ask God to show me what He has in store for me. This new year, I ask Him to continue to teach me how to live for Him. To continue to mold me to His image. To keep me close to Him. I want to keep following His voice only in everything I do. Yes, I mean everything. This includes how I relate to those around me, and how to spend my time and money, my thoughts and my attitudes, my actions and conclusions. My motives for what I do and think, even if it is good and acceptable in Christianity.
I have been, and am learning to simply be His child and be obedient to Him. I see and experience His kingdom more and more.
The best I can do to make myself better is not acceptable to Him. He must be the One to make me and mold me, so when I boast, I boast about what He has done, and not what I accomplished. He truly gets the glory then.
Will you join me? Or will you just try to make your own self better? If you choose the latter, then you will keep trying for the rest of your life. But, if you allow God to make you and mold you, then you will become what He wants you to be, and an eternally better you.
Rom 10:3- For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God’s means to attain righteousness.
