New Years
How did you spend your New Years? Some went to a party with friends or family, others have spent it sick in bed, and myself, I sat up, drinking wine and watching the Rockin’ New Years Eve show. While I would say this year has been uneventful, it wasn’t, just not overly positive. I know for me, I don’t enjoy spending New Years Eve alone. I remember last year I sat in my living room in my old house, all the lights were out, and I listened to music. I barely noticed when the clock struck midnight and rung in the New Year. While I had high hopes 2017 would have gone so much differently then it had, I continue to hope for the future.
When we put our best foot forward sometimes no matter what we do we fall flat on our face. We all have made new years resolutions, and sometimes we are able to achieve them, others we fail, but we can’t achieve anything unless we try. See, you can’t make omelets without breaking some eggs. We cannot build a house without putting forth effort. It takes something to get something, and if we ever want to get we have to give.
As the days of the New Year come and go, much of life is going to be attitude. How are we managing our time, and our gifts we are given? How are we handling the adversity? We will make all kinds of statements about how this year will be different, and when it comes down to it, the only true difference you will have over your life is you. How will your own attitude be? How will you handle the chances within yourself that’s so needed to make the true change? Will you devote more of your to Jesus? Will you spend more time in church, and with loved ones? Will you love more deeply? Will you give more freely? The thing is, nothing else matters if you don’t improve your relationship with God. Everything we have comes from God, and when we have nothing we still have God. When we have everything and we are living a blessed life, we are only blessed because we are dong what the Lord wants from us. If you’re going to make any changes this year, put your nose in your bible more.
If I may, I’d like to offer some advice. Love your wives like tomorrow may end. Love your husbands like you may never see them again. Don’t take your days for granted. Don’t waist the time we have because it’s precious and we never know what the future may hold. In just over a year I’ve lost so much and I never thought 2017 was going to be a year of so much hurt and pain. No matter the pain we have, or the pain we may face, we can never loose sight of the big picture. Love is more powerful then anything else and when we loose sight of that, we truly loose sight of the hope in our lives. Jesus Christ died for us and overcame death to give us hope. If we are to truly have hope in our lives we must believe that anything is possible and tomorrow may bring us anything. We have to make the change within our heart, not with our mind. Make the change and be the change.
The Arrow Preacher 