Happy New Year! Resolutions abound. If you haven’t made a New Year’s resolution or need ideas, just open your phone or any social media and you’ll find several suggestions. I’m not big on making a statement of fact that I will do something different or accomplish a specific task simply because I know there is a good chance I will fail. It’s easy to begin strong and then get distracted or lose heart, then the excuses begin. So, I personally choose to avoid this popular activity of the New Year. However, as I was considering this, I realized perhaps I just need to make a resolution that is within a different realm of thinking. God-centered. God’s will and desire. Success will then be at my fingertips! Because of Him.
Resolved! To know and follow God more fully in the coming year! This resolution is a winner because it’s what God wants for me and is within His will to accomplish.
Jer 9:23-24 Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; 24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things, "declares the LORD.
To boast here means to shine, to celebrate, to praise! Shine for God. Celebrate God. Praise God. For all to see! God has chosen to give you understanding and consideration of who He is. He wants you to know Him!
Php 3:8-11 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from [the] Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which [comes] from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Consider. All things in your life should be unimportant when compared to the superiority of knowing Jesus. What floats your boat? Is it sitting at His feet trying to understand Him, the miraculous gift and power of His resurrection, being able to share in whatever hardships He allows for the sake of knowing and understanding Him more? Wow! This is the example we’ve been given. This is what God wants for His children! Our hearts should be breaking out into a chorus of Halleluiah’s right about now to be considered worthy of His fellowship.
Halleluiah indeed!
Ro 12:1-2 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
God will change your thinking and enlighten your understanding if you are desiring. Why? Because He is merciful. He will give you discernment of the things which are good and acceptable and complete in His will. Amazing!
Joh 17:3 "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
know <ginosko> allow, be aware of, feel, have knowledge, perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.
Resolved! In my direction and purpose determined to know my Lord and Savior, the only true God.
Jer 29:13 'And you will seek Me and find [Me,] when you search for Me with all your heart.
Only by His grace and mercy. Because it is what He wants for me! He will see to completion my resolution to seek Him.
Pr 8:17 "I love those who love me; and those who diligently seek me will find me.
It is a Happy New Year! Amen. Halleluiah. Praise God!
