HAPPY NEW YEAR!
PREPARE THE WAY
It’s a new year. How is this year going to be different for you than last year? Have you written down your dreams and desires for this new year? What is it you want to see happen in this year for you and your family? What are you plans to make it happen? Do you have any plans, or are you going to live from day to day like you perhaps did last year? What are your goals? What are your dreams? What are your desires? Why aren’t you pursuing them?
What is holding you back? Are you afraid? Are you afraid it won’t happen? Are you afraid to step out of your comfort zone?
How about making this the year you begin to move out in the things you desire to do? What are your excuses? You’re too old? You don’t have any money? You don’t have any education? You are too busy? You’re a young parent with no space for your dreams? You know something—-we all have excuses. They all seem valid to us, but are they?
I once heard someone say that if you are afraid you won’t accomplish anything and make no goals, you will have done zero at the end of the year. But what if you made goals and only accomplished one of them. That is better than zero. Words for you to ponder at the beginning of this new year.
Words we speak go forth before us and create the pathway for our future, create what we will be walking in, later in life. In due time, those words which were sent on out ahead of us will do everything they can do to produce what we have said. God created us human beings with our mouth and tongue being the main vehicle for our lives. Don’t you find that very interesting? No other creature produces by their words. We have the ability to form words and those words in turn form the life that we live.
We will walk into the words we have put out in front of us, whether those words are good or bad, positive or negative, God’s word or man’s words about us. These words will produce substance. That substance will eventually become reality in our lives, if we speak those words long enough.
We are told in God’s Word that He has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing; choose life! (Deuteronomy 30:19) His Word is life. (Proverbs 4:22) That is to be our choice —- the life of His Word. His Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path —- pathway, future, life. (Psalm 119:105) God gave us His Word so that we would have the good life, the abundant life that He promised. (John 10:10) He sent His Word to deliver us from destruction. (Psalm 107:20)
In the way of righteousness is life and in its pathway there is no death. (Proverbs 12:28)
God and His Word are life to us, and that is what we want going before us to make our pathway one of the good life of God.
Ephesians 2:10, Amplified Bible
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us, [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].