As the festivities come to a close and we prepare to usher in the new year it is also time we begin to reflect on the year soon gone and the year approaching. 2014 will soon be gone and indeed we will begin 2015 AD.
2014 will be gone forever and never to return. That is very apparent to all. What may also be apparent are the opportunities we missed. Those opportunities to grow, develop, get promoted, get rich or perhaps get married. Whilst it is good to aspire to greater heights of personal achievement we very often lose focus of probably that most important of goals – doing God’s will.
Your God-given talents are desperately required to bring about transformations in the lives of many. The sick, the hurting, the bound, the poor and those in despair are waiting you and I to step up. Not everyone is called to serve as a missionary in a foreign land but all are called to do something. It’s starts with our comfort-zone then rapidly breaking out to unfamiliar terrain.
Why is this important?
Simply because time is running out! The Bible is replete with prophecies for the end times. It is undeniable that we live in those times. Indeed, our personal achievements will account for nothing bar those that served to accomplish our Father’s will on Earth. Jesus exhorted his followers then and us now to focus on our Father’s will by storing for ourselves treasures in Heaven. [Matthew 6:19-21]
Indeed when time is no more our works will be tested. And those found wanting will be sad. [1 Corinthians 3:13]
The Lord’s vineyard is great and “the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few.” [Matthew 9:36-38]. I will like to implore you to seriously consider stepping up to plate and heed the Lord of the harvest’s plea for more workers in His vineyard.
If you do create a list of New Year resolutions, and you should, may it contain a special one – The resolve to do our Father’s will and not yours. The road won’t be easy but the dividends are immeasurable. Even Jesus cried “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” [Luke 22:42]
His obedience to our Father by paying the price for our sin and freedom has earned Him the right to sit at God’s right hand!
May your new year resolution for 2015 and indeed any year be simply this – “Not my will but yours O Lord.”
God bless you and may His anointing freely flow over you in 2015, breaking every yoke in your life and empowering you to live prosperously in health, wealth, relationships and above all ministry!
Socrates
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