When It’s Hard To Do What You Said you would do
2020 and 2021 was a bombshell inside of a pressure cooker as the worldwide pandemic ran rampant. Let's be honest...we were all just trying to keep our sanity during lock down!
2022 everyone began poking their heads out of their holes to see if the storm had cleared. Cautiously, the world began moving forward.
2023. This was the world's chance. A new beginning. A fresh start. Everyone gets a do-over.
This is THE YEAR!
Briefly rewind to your own thoughts back in January 2023. Maybe the goals were just in your head. Maybe you were brave enough to write them down. Maybe, just maybe, your internal conversations sounded a little something like this...
Physically, lets lose weight, eat healthier and hit the gym at least 3 times a week!
Financially, goodbye student debt! Being debt free is well within my grasp this year!
Relationally, it's time to make intentional efforts to build up strong friendships, marriages, and strike up some "parenting wins" with the kids!
Spiritually, church in-person, tithing for the first time, or reading the Bible through in a year are all reasonable goals.
Sobriety, I'm never going back to what I was. Addiction, bad habits, and poor boundaries with technology are all behind me.
So...how's it going with all that? Maybe it's time to refocus.
The scriptures have much to say about consistency, remaining faithful, and striving for what is good and Godly. We do not accomplish God's Work on our own strength, rather the Holy Spirit joins us to empower us for His glory. It takes obedience, diligence, and humility.
His Will > Our Will
Here are 10 scriptures to encourage you, stretch you, deepen you, and help refocus you on your mission:
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Matthew 5:37
“Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
James 1:4
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
John 8:31
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples.”
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
