Welcome to
another January!
A happy time
for many of us to try new things in our year resolutions.
Another year to better ourselves.
I think most people look forward to
the new year. It’s a time where people can start again, because usually the
year before didn’t turn out how they wished. So, they try to make new goals for
their life at the beginning of a new year. And honestly most of us suck at
making new goals for our life. Why? Because we get dreamy eyed about the future
that we stick unrealistic goals on paper to struggle through the year in hopes
to accomplish our year goals.
I say all this for one reason. I
get so frustrated at my own unrealistic goals that I wonder what’s the point.
Now don’t get me wrong I think things such as lent, new year’s resolutions and
so forth are good. It’s good to want to better ourselves. We must seek to work
harder at realistic goals so that we do not say to ourselves, “the year 2016
was a terrible year, and I’m hoping that 2017 is better.” Yes, that’s right, I’m
talking about almost 90% of Americans on social media saying that their year
sucked in 2016.
I stopped creating new year’s
resolutions for myself a while ago, because I simply never accomplished them. I
would try which is good. But I became frustrated with setting up a goal that I
never finished. Just recently I found a new way to help me create realistic
goals and even if I failed this was still a sure-fire way to live my life for
God in my new year’s resolution.
What happened?
I read a daily devotional by Nancy
Leigh DeMoss. In the devotional Nancy created a realistic acronym for the word
PRIORITIES. This acronym, if you followed through, would help you set realistic
priorities for each and every year. So, with each resolution I would make I
would make sure it was realistic and make sure it fit in my priorities of everyday
life.
The Acronym goes…
"P – Pray-always (happy sad,
or in need) Pray
R – Review Gods priorities
for my life
I – Inventory how I’m using
my time
O – Ordering my schedule
according to God’s plan for my life
R – Resist seemingly urgent
demands that threaten to derail me from what is truly important
I – seek Input from others
to help determine God’s priorities for various seasons in my life
T – Take advantage of the
time God gives you
I – Identify the “little
foxes” that rob you of time, margin, and spiritual vitality
E – Experience each moment
and season to its absolute fullest
S – Stay sensitive and fully
surrendered to God”
Doing all of these steps I felt
like I was able to create goals for my life and as long as they fit into the
will of God they would and have become realistic goals.
Why share this with you all?
Because maybe you’re in the same boat as me. Trying to set realistic goals in
your life and follow through with those goals. You know what I mean right? Instead
of creating something unrealistic for the year, you find yourself one month
into the year not following through with the goals you created 30 days ago, Yeah,
I think we’ve all been there.
All this to say, creating
priorities that fit into our plan and Gods plan is important. If we leave God
out of our weight loss plan for the year or our plan to try rock climbing this year, we already set ourselves up for failure.
So, here’s to a new year of making
sure God is a part of all the PRIORITIES we might make for ourselves this year
and every year.
Cheers and may Gods plan be even
better than our own!
God is good my friends!
