So, let’s agree—resolutions have little import; however, what you CHOOSE to
do does matter! Your choices are lived out daily; your choices reveal your
true commitments and principles; your choices day in and day out demonstrate
the passionate heart directions of your life. The only one who can change
your life personally, outside of the involvement of the Holy Spirit and
grace of God in your life—is YOU. We work with God in walking and working
out our salvation.
Let’s talk about the most important CHOICE you can make, if you haven’t
already:
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Joshua 24:15 (New King James Version)
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And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which
your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or
the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me
and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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At Grace Christian Center, we make fresh covenant each year to Jesus. No, it
doesn’t mean we are trying to “get saved” every year because we are saved by
grace through faith in Jesus. But it means we make fresh decision, fresh
covenant, and fresh commitment to Him. And we ask ourselves three questions
at the end of one year and beginning of the next:
1.
1 - What kind of Christian do you want to be?
2.
2 - What kind of Christianity do you want to live?
3.
3 - Therefore, what kind of church do you want to have/be?
Our answers, if we answer honestly, are telling. The purpose of Jesus is to
have my entire heart and life. I want to run after Him passionately,
purposely, wholly. So, my answer to question number one is that I want to be
a completely sold-out Christian.
Therefore, I want to live a full-hearted, passionately sold-out
Christianity. The purpose of Jesus, as revealed in the prayer He told us to
pray (The Lord’s Prayer) is to “Bring His Kingdom on earth as it is in
Heaven.” That needs to be my purpose and that leads to the answer for the
kind of church I want to have and be—a church fully sold-out to Jesus,
wanting to do His purpose and to be found close to Him, in agreement to Him,
in love with Him.
These decisions, these answers, lead to the choices I make in my daily life.
I choose daily to read and study the Word of God; I choose to pray, to
worship, to love Him, to attend church—the family of God which helps me keep
these choices and commitments.
I’m not a “casual religious observer”—but Jesus holds my heart, my entire
life. I love Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. Do I need to
grow in doing this more purely, more completely? Of course, but it begins
with my choice.
I urge you to replace your resolutions with your fresh choices to put Jesus
first in the New Year. Choose you this day.
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