I would like to add a fairly significant resolution to my current list.
When I make up these lists, I try to address all of the areas of my life that are important to me (spiritual, physical, relational, etc), and discover ways that I can improve them. This year, I honestly couldn’t think of much related to my Spiritual growth. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve felt lacking in that area, but I couldn’t think of anything that really resonated. Memorizing Scripture is important, and I will work on this point. But just this evening, I realized what I’d like to focus on this year:
I will go to God first.
If I’m truly honest, the first person I turn to in any situation, good or bad, is me. After that, I go to different people based on the situation, but there are usually at least two people that I go to before I go to God.
It is important to go to my friends and family to talk through problems, seek out assistance and share celebrations and joys (as well as the sorrows and frustrations), and it is important to draw on the resources that I have personally to solve a problem, etc.
But the reason for this resolution is because I have the order wrong.
Jon Acuff, on his blog Stuff Christians Like, made a very profound observation the other day: God will never ask us to be God.
When stuff happens, good or bad, God is God. He is the first one I can turn to. He is the first one I should turn to. He is the first one I want to turn to.
It is a reminder that He is much bigger and more powerful than anything I am facing. And even if I don’t understand what is going on, or why, when I turn to Him, I remember that He knows, and that He is with me, regardless of the circumstance.
So that is my final resolution for 2010: in the good times and the bad, I will turn to God first.






















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