Many of us every year at the beginning come up with New Year’s Resolutions or goals.
Some New Year’s Resolutions for most people are:
I’m going to the gym multiple times a week.
Eat Less Sugar.
Get a New Job.
Travel to Another Country.
Get out of Debt.
Volunteer.
Quit Drinking
Quit Smoking.
The list are the most common New Year’s Resolutions Americans make and break by February. Especially the going to the gym one!
My New Year’s Eve was one of the best New Year’s Eve if not the best New Year’s Eve ever! I went to a Praise Party at Elevation Church with some amazing friends! This was so AMAZING!
While we were waiting to get into the Praise Partyat church on New Year’s Eve my friends were talking about New Year’s Goals. All of us should write out goals with a plan because without a plan at least written out then we will not set out to accomplish the goals for the year.
After the Praise Party Scott, Laura and I went back to Scott’s house to hangout.
Scott asked Laura and I a couple of questions.
First Question: In one word what did you leave behind in 2014?
My response was rejection. God has brought me througha growing process in the last four years in this area of plucking out old crap which doesn’t need to be in my life. Rejection doesn’t belong in our lives because it’s not from God and he never rejects us ever!
The second question Scott asked us was: In one word what are you going to pick up in 2015?
My response was one. I bet y’all are thinking one really Blake what do you mean by one?
One meaning in everything in my life it’s all about One. One meaning Jesus.
In everything it’s all about Jesus. Not about me.
John 3:30 (NKJV) says, ” He must increase, I must decrease.”
Everything we do must be all about Jesus. We can’t be number #1and expect to please God. Doesn’t work that way we must become less.
Another way we can be all about one is guarding our hearts.
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
Now the misconception with this verse means not to be honest with one another. That’s not true because God wants us to be honest where we at with our walk in Christ. Being honest, open, real with each other brings healing and invites others to expose their crap. You are free and others are free.
Guarding your heart means to watch out for everything that you allow to enter your mind. What your watching, your thoughts, and what you’re mind is dwelling on.
If you’re mind is on about how to please others and not pleasing Christ first then in your actions with your family, friends, and others they will see you holding out the approval bucket and you saying feed me with words of affirmation. At first they may give it to you but after a while they know you’re self-seeking and this will destroy your relationships.
There’s a children’s song that says be careful little eyes what you see, be careful little feet where you go, and be careful little mind what you think.
As a guy if our mind is on lustful thoughts of women and not treating women as our sisters in Christ our actions will show in treating women as objects instead of how God intended our sisters to be in Christ.
Let Christ be at the center of everything and Christ will flow from the inside out.
One more verse is Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) says, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.”
God wants us to seek Him with all of your heart in everything. When we do this we will find Him in everything good or bad.
2015 for me is The Year of the One. One meaning Jesus in all things.
This sunset taken a couple of months ago at Adventures has a cross. This is the Cross of Christ which needs to shine in our hearts. This will flow from us from the inside out when we are about One in our lives.
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