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Getting Stuck
This was us on Wednesday night.
Well.... nearly almost.
On Wednesday, we went to see Avatar at the IMAX.
Beautiful movie, incredible in 3D.
Absolutely no idea it’s about to drop a foot of snow or whatever while we’re in there.
Arabelle’s in crocs.
The movie shuts down 3/4ths of the way through (so no spoilers for the end of Avatar).
I got all the kids home, safe and steady, a bit of white-knuckle… but I’m home all warm, with all the kids.
And I think, you know… the roads were getting pretty bad out there.
Let me check on my wife.
Who I left.
At the movie theater.
I call, she’s still there.
Just wrapping up.
I let her know, the roads are pretty bad, and (reluctantly) offer to come get her.
She gets in the van and backs up.
No problem.
She tries to go forward.
Nothing.
Doesn’t want to move.
Barely wants to spin.
She tries all the things… she’s blocking the parking lot, folks try to help… nothing.
So I suit up.
Back out into the torrential blizzard of 2022.
The van is not going to make it, so I drive her home.
Drove home, waited for roads to clear, actually waited until Friday.
Went back.
Drove home, nice and easy, no problem.
Fortunately, KK knew just what to do.
She knew all the things to try, knew when it was hopeless… and had other options.
Can you imagine how ridiculous if she just sat there with the gas pedal to the floor, trying the same thing that wasn’t working, not moving forward… just burning time and fuel.
Ridiculous in the van.
But… kind of sounds like life.
Burning energy, trying hard, doing the same thing not knowing what else to try, not knowing who to call or how to “try differently.”
Are you stuck?
New Years is a time to evaluate.
to reevaluate.
To get unstuck.
Top 10 New Years Resolutions:
Exercise more
Lose weight
Get organized
Learn a new skill or hobby
Live life to the fullest
Save more money / spend less money
Quit smoking
Spend more time with family and friends
Travel more
Read more
Best New Years Resolution:
Jesus.
That’s the one word answer.
Let’s add some more.
I want to love Jesus more, know him more, receive His love more.
I want to be more like Jesus, love more like Jesus, live into the righteousness of Jesus.
I want to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus… not because it makes me more righteous or holy… but because that’s what “life abundant” look like.
That’s what loving God and loving others really looks like.
New Years Resolution: More Jesus, please.
Let’s make that a SMART goal: 23% more Jesus in 2023.
By December 31st of next year.
How do we do this?
How do we take stock of our walk with God?
Of how we are growing (or not growing) to look and love like Jesus?
What is Discipleship?
Discipleship can mean a lot of things.
What is your “next step”, what is God doing in your life?
What is He calling you to, personally, specifically...
But if we were to keep it real simple:
A scholar of the Bible once asked Jesus, what’s like the “most important God-type thing we should be doing?”
Keep it real simple.
Love God.
Love Others.
Do you love God more today than you did last year?
What does that love look like?
How does it take form?
Is it a fond feeling towards God?
Does it take action?
Our love towards God is always, always, always responsive.
We only can love because He first loved us.
So receive His love, His gospel, His grace, His forgiveness, His restoration, His healing… we receive His love in more and more of our life.
In our heart.
In our soul.
In our minds.
In our past.
In our present.
In our future.
Have you heard and received the gospel?
Not a one-time thing, we hear God’s love and God’s forgiveness at deeper and deeper levels, and applied to more and more of who we are and how we live.
God loves you.
He loves you childhood mistakes and forgives you.
He sees the brokenness of what was done to you… he and he alone can bring healing and wholeness.
He sees the brokenness in your marriage, in your friendships, with your parents… the love and grace of God loves and forgives and restores all.
We can call it this: Being before doing.
Before you could possibly do anything for God, you receive God.
You only love because He first loves us… as you receive that love you are then able to love.
You must first be, being the disciple of Jesus, receiving the gospel, then living the gospel.
We grow in the knowledge and understanding and application of His love… and our love for Him grows in response.
Has that been happening in you this last year?
Where?
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