Quick thought

.....new years resolutions are on the rise. It occurs to me the New Year is a natural and beneficial time to begin again...making a brand new start. I am on that band wagon definately but the thought occurres to me (which it may have already in most of you) that we are still human. When the clock strikes midnight on January 1st 2009 we will not turn into supermen/superwomen. Our frailties remain the same. So, before you make your plans for your new start would you consider that you just like Adam are "but dust". The Bible tells us that our lives are a "vapor"....that is very definitive. God did not allow that to be penned in His Holy Word for our discouragement brothers and sisters I believe its for our edification and hope. Our perfect bodies will come at a time the Lord has already set. The Bible tells us to "look up" because that is our destination....that is where we will have rest from this sinful body and the failures that plague us. Put simple my dear brother and sister our hope should not be in our plans but in the God who will bring us home. : ) Oh, He loves you so much more than I could and He is patient! My goodness, He knows you better than you know yourself and know's what you will do tomorrow and next year yet He waits for you.

He tells us to "commit our way to Him". So, what is it that you struggle with? Tell God you won't go there that very day whatever it is. Tell him you won't give into deceptive thoughts that would lead you there. Tell Him that you will replace those thoughts with scripture....His truth. Did you know that you have been predistined for good works?

For we are His workmanship

created in Christ Jesus for good works

which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10

Our glorious plans should never be so set (like in stone) without a healthly knowledge of yourself....you will not be without sin. God knows that : ) You will not be perfect b/c your thoughts alone will go ary if nothing else.

I hope this encourages you. It does me, that God loves me enough to walk with me, never forsaking me inspite of my failures and weakness. I love you my dear spiritual family.

Dawn