Good morning! How are we faithing? Tis a new year and we are looking to what is to be this year. Celebrations are a part of our lives. Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, weddings etc. and it is important that we celebrate. New years celebrations are for looking to a new years, the old is past. New beginnings are what is before us and that is why new years resolutions abound. Unfortunately alot of those resolutions are forgotten or have failed by March. Here's some thoughts for you. Don't commit to a gym to lose weight, commit to habit changes who's effect is lost weight. Don't promise to not swear by watching your language but by inputting good language i.e. the Word, shutting off HBO or any offending thing that exposes you. Take that first step, make yourself do what is necessary and don't whip your own butt into giving up because you regress a few times. More people beat themselves by giving up and it is sad. If I gave up the first time I fell off a bike...These old habits you wish to change did not become habits over night so fixing them wont be quick and easy. Speaking in generalities here we must move our focus away from self and onto God because as long as we keep focus on self, failure will happen. Be realistic, set goals but be aware of our humanness and that we will stumble. I have to loose weight. I am not about to start a diet that is not sustainable because the second would be worse than the first. We who have struggles with weight understand what I mean. So worship our Lord. Strive for perfection and recognise we cant be perfect but we can ask forgiveness and press on. While striving for protection, don't do it for self justification but as a witness for the Lord. Therein lies the difference in our attitude and ultimate success. Our success is not determined by the world but by our Father in heaven and he told us we were justified through his son who was raised from the dead and lives today, our risen savior. Celebrate your victories. Mourn your loses. Keep the Word close to you and remember the love our Father has that he would save each of us and all we have to do is ask and repent. You can be successful with your new years resolution with an attitude adjustment and a thankful heart.
WORSHIP
Reverent devotion and allegiance pledged to God; the rituals or ceremonies by which this reverence is expressed. The English word worship comes from the Old English word worthship, a word which denotes the worthiness of the one receiving the special honor or devotion.
Colossians 2:16-3:1
Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (which all refer to things destined to perish with the using)-- in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.
NAS
Remember Christy Fulfer...remember Steve Travis...remember Marvin McKinney...
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for last year and we ask blessings for this year. Help us see truth and wisdom. Give us strength to act accordingly. Teach us self control. Lord we lift those people who need a touch from you this day and this year. help them realize your grace and mercy even in the midst of everything that goes on. Lord we thank you for loving us. It is in Jesus name we pray, amen
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