Happy New Year Friends!! Even as we’ve already entered into 2011, I’m sure that at every path we have turned we have people asking our new year’s goals and resolutions.
Maybe you are thinking about your 2010 goals and dreams. You feel as if the reason you’re not ready to face 2011 is because your 2010 is not yet completed. Today I was reading in a devotional, “The birth of the vision is often followed by its death and then its resurrection.” How true is that, I have seen it often and even experienced it personally myself. I believe that this is not just limited to vision alone, but also with our hopes, dreams, promises and desires. Perhaps in 2010 there has been a promise or a dream that is yet unfulfilled and you are losing hope. Hope that God will ever fulfill it.
Yet I will exhort and encourage you, in John 12:24 “..unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” How true are the words of God, how much wisdom there is in it. Many a time, God will use the situation to bring about internal change in us. It is because it is something we treasure so much that God can use it most effectively to mold us. Continue to have hope and continue to ask the Lord to open your eyes to things He wants to teach you.
For those who are excited and dreaming of the brand new year ahead, I have one word for you and that is “GLORY.” This is personally what the Lord has been speaking to me and challenging me about. For myself everywhere I turn whether be it in the Sunday service preaching, to praise and worship, to personal quiet times. The word GLORY keeps appearing.
According to the oxford dictionary!! (My best friend) there are a few different meanings, noun (1) high reward or honor won by notable achievement, (2) magnificence, (3) praise, worship offered to God, (4) ring or halo around head of Christ and saint, verb (5) take great pride or pleasure in. I remember one particular bible verse that I read that really brought out the meaning for me and hit home. In John 13:31-32 “..Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.” When I read that verse it just speaks bounds about the glory of God, and Jesus came to glorify God and that in laying His life down God is glorified and when God is glorified Jesus is glorified too! Amen!!
I sincerely hope for those excited and those even apprehensive about the coming year that you’ll choose to bring glory, to glorify Him in every thought, action, deed and attitude. As we choose this day to serve Him whole heartedly and surrender everything especially areas where we still fear and doubt, we will be satisfied and His joy will begin to be poured out in our lives.
As John Piper always says: ‘God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him!’ and I couldn’t agree more…
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