Let Go In 2014

2014.

A new year.

A new calendar on our wall.

A new set of promises made to ourselves, destined to be left strewn along the road of life as the calendar turns to . . . Next week.

No worries, though, everyone does it. We are not alone when fruitlessly chasing the things of this life, the promises of the flesh. Personally, I have always excelled at choosing my own way; directly to failure.

Who says that we must never indulge our whims, our desires, our wishes? Where is it written that we should not follow the paths set out by our friends and acquaintances, those who we blindly follow because it is "in" today? What else can we do to change our paths and begin to live as we really desired (if we only knew what we truly desire?)

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." (Romans 12:2 ESV)

We should carefully weigh our decisions, and our choices, giving them over to God and listening to that voice that we know to trust, though seldom do. The voice that never says, "I told you so," but rather, "I am still here, I will still wait for you." We give up our place at the head of the line, as if to imply we are no longer the driving force behind the "why" of our decisions.

Paul continues:
"For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned." (Romans 12:3 ESV)

God will work within the faith we display.

So maybe this year, in lieu of making resolutions that will invariably be discarded almost before we have an opportunity to fail at them, let us give in to Our Lord.

In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he says, "Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:1, 2 ESV)

God's grace is sufficient. We do not have to make promises to ourselves, to try to do these things ourselves, to go out and fail by ourselves. ". . . Now is the favorable time," and all we have to do is accept that. God wants to be for us as He goes before us. Let Him lead you this year to great and wondrous blessings.

Have a blessed year and more.

In Christ,

Michael Porter
January 1, 2014

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