As we are get ready to enter into a new year full of hope, expectation and desire, let us take some time to evaluate the occurrences of our lives in the last few months so it can be clear to us what God is shifting as we enter in to the promising new season at hand.
The children of Israel went around in circles. The murmuring and complaining diminished their aim and their cause became null.
Even the disciples wandered in confusion from time to time. Though they had the living Word guiding them they could not grasp the revelation of the next season. It cause one to betray and one to deny.
Paul says in Romans 7:15 (NKJV)
"For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do."
Old habits die hard. And obtaining discipline is a milestone. Sometimes inspiration is not enough and motivation is only but the door. Consistency and determination are sisters at arms, but perseverance is the ultimate threshold.
"And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men" (Colossians 3:23 NKJV)
What so ever our prerogative should be, whatever the cause, whatever we desire to obtain, the objective should be on to the Lord. Our days of trying to make everyone happy or anyone to accept us should be left behind once and for all. There is a specific purpose and calling for each of us that awaits, so what we do and how we do it should be done in such a way that it does not compromise our beliefs and contaminate our hearts.
As in water face reflects face,
So a man’s heart reveals the man (Proverbs 27:19 NKJV)
Actions speak louder than words. All I know is that when I speak, what I do next should follow or vice versa. But when I act, it should be in such a way that those around me can see that my ambition or passion is not an act of conceit but an act of selflessness because what I do is for the sake of a greater purpose and in that I will get mine!
The purity of human hearts is tested
by giving them a little fame Prov27:21 MSG
Reflect in the doing of your actions as you enter in this new season of second, third, forth chances and so on. Better yet, it's a clean slate. A new beginning. Don't waste it by doing the same thing wearing new clothes or a new hairstyle. That maybe important but what's inside and what comes out is what makes the difference this time.
What am trying to say, Tozer said it best:
"It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it." A.W. Tozer
