For me, the New Year is a time when I reflect on the past year, both the good and the bad, and make resolutions for the New Year. Yesterday I spent some time evaluating a lot the things that make my life what it is today. Maybe you’ve spent some time thinking about your own life also. Like no other time in the year, The New Year allows us to start over. When I think of starting over there are two passages of Scripture that really challenge and encourage me. Check them out,
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT)
What will you focus on or commit to in 2012? If I asked you the question, “Are you healthy?” How would you answer it? I’m not talking about making the usual New Years Resolution of losing weight or hitting the gym, I’m talking about overall health. Health produces Growth and Growth only happens when something or someone is healthy. So this year I want to encourage you to think about being healthy!
But how do we measure that? Health and growth are both hard to measure when you look at them as a whole, so over the next five days I am going to post five areas in my life I always evaluate when I begin a New Year. These five areas can serve as a gauge for us to see how healthy we really are and help us to see if we are truly growing like we think we are. So, I hope you will take some time to think about who you are, and who you are becoming. Then ask the hard question, “Does this match up to the person I really want to be?”
Dan Gould 