NEW YEAR, SAME GOD

 As the new year approaches what do you think about? Do you think about new goals? Maybe you think about what you would like to improve about yourself in the new year. Are you a little different, thinking of places you would like to go, or things you would like to do? Whatever your plans are for the new year, don’t leave God out of them! It may be a new year with new goals and self-improvements, but God never changes. He is the same this year, last year, and every year! He needs to be included in the new year resolutions for Christians, and He wants to be included!

I believe God wants us to reflect on our life, review our priorities, and set new goals. It’s up to you when you do this, but most people will do this at the beginning of each year. New Year, a new perspective, it makes sense.

NEW YEAR, NEW PERSPECTIVE

Take time right now to think about the new year, and what you would like to do. Below, make a top 3 list of your goals, what you would like to do, places to go, or simply the areas you would like to refocus on.

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DON’T LEAVE GOD OUT

Don’t leave God out of your plans for the new year! God knows what is best for us, and we should always include God in our plans and goals. So, now rewrite your top 3 list. But this time at the end of each one write “If God wills”.

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CONCLUSION

We can’t leave God out of our lives, our choices, or our plans. When we include God, we can be confident that whatever happens, God is with us and helping us move in the correct direction. We will conclude this post with scripture that will encourage us to include “if God wills” with our plans.

James 4:13-17

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Acts 18:20-21

When they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent, but took leave of them, saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing.” And he sailed from Ephesus.

I Corinthians 4:19

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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If you want to learn about becoming a child of God, and what that means you can read our post titled What is Salvation? and God’s Promise of Salvation.

We pray that this blog of including God in your New Year’s Resolutions was a blessing for you. We hope you search our website, Christian Fellowshipping, for more encouraging ways to fellowship with God and other believes.

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