122822 one off- new years

New years resolutions

one way in which you want to improve yourself this year

one goal you want to achieve

how will you measure that? what is progress going to look like for you?

what progress is in faith

1:3-12

what is your inheritance- focus on unfading

your faith is being tested like one tests gold, burning away the bad so that only the pure remains

the end result of an unfading faith is listed here

this is what my faith should look like

how much praise and glory and honor are in my life?

how much of those things do I have for myself instead of for God?

1:13-19 & 2:1-5

things to be burned off in the fire

the passions of the flesh or of the world are meant to be put away

those go with the old life not with the new one that was born again

weird image, but regard yourself as an infant- having humility and needing the help of what God has given you

you are important and you are not meant to be alone in this

part of something much bigger than yourself

Application

don’t just try to be closer to God, measure it

be honest and active about what is going on in your life and truly try to make a change that you can see