Be Resolved!

Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Perhaps you resolved to exercise more, to diet and drop those extra pounds you might have put on over the holidays. One man I know resolved to read all the books on the list of 100 books everyone should read in their lifetime. Maybe you’ve resolved to read your Bible through this year.

As you look at the year ahead, what do you anticipate? Do you see another year of stability, doing the same things you’ve normally done, living a comfortable year that looks remarkably like the last one? Or do you see a year of change ahead?

2014 promises to be a year of change for me. I have one semester of school left, and will graduate in May. I may take some summer classes, but the one thing I know for sure is that I will have to get a job. I have no idea what God has in mind for me. The one thing I do know is that He doesn’t expect me to go it alone, and has prepared me for whatever he has for me next.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21

Did you catch the good part? He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. I have a pretty active imagination. I can’t wait to see what He has in store!  And he already knows what He has for you:

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

 Ephesians 2:10

So, whatever your resolutions for the next year, whatever you think your future holds, remember that whatever it is, you don’t do it alone. God has prepared you, he’s prepared the things he wants you to do, and he’s prepared the people who will see and be drawn to him through you. The only thing for you to do is to be prepared with a right and willing attitude.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.  

It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24

What will occupy your time this year? What good works will you do out of your love and gratitude to the Lord?

I resolve to face each day with grace to share, to try to remember to see each individual as precious, no matter my preconceptions, and to try to be kind. There, you heard it. It's in writing. Help me!