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New Years Resolutions and Decisions
Everything I saw on New Years day and from my friends on Facebook had to do with best wishes for a new year, what your resolutions for this year were going to be, that they hope that this year would be better than last year, that it was a chance to start over, etc, etc, etc.
Were those things that you thought about?
That maybe this year things would turn out right?
This year I’ll make decision that will benefit me rather than screw my life up.
Prayer
Everyone wants a both a peaceful and fulfilling life.
Nevertheless, a good share of people I’ve met or know feel that in some way life is not cooperating with their desire.
Life keeps setting up barriers.
The only way to get peace and fulfillment is to make the right decisions about how we are going to conduct our life.
We can’t control what happens to us, but we can determine the principles we live by.
The fact is, our life is the sum total of our decisions.
Some decisions are momentous and some are trivial.
Some are easy and some hard.
Every day of our life is filled with decisions.
How can we make good decisions to get us through the year and survive?
Let’s look at the life of Moses as summarized by the author of Hebrews.
Here we find that fundamental decisions will determine the quality of our life.
Like Moses, we must chose God’s plan over our own.
A. Our Plans may please us more.
Kathy will probably tell you that when we first got married, if I had formulated a plan in my mind, that was the direction I wanted to go.
It wasn’t very easy for me to change my thought process.
I butted heads with my mother-in-law quite a bit.
I hope I have learned my lessons and am a little more flexible now.
We as humans are like that.
We want to to do our own thing.
We like our own council.
Paul here was speaking to the christian’s around him at the time.
It seems that none would help go to Philippi to help the followers and the cause there.
We like our own plans.
B. Our own plan making may even seem to make sense.
How many times have you formulated an idea in your mind and then written it down.
Satisfied with it, you bring to a colleague or friend and they shoot it full of holes.
Solomon had many words to say about wisdom and things that make sense like this passage.
C. Trying to improve God’s plan by substituting our own is ultimate futility.
Plans can be faultily right?
We’ve all had plans fail from time to time and we’ve had to adjust them.
Have you ever tried to adjust a plan that you felt the Lord had set up for you?
Yeah, did it work?
D. However difficult for us, our plans must yield to His plan.
Oh how hard this thought is for us to accomplish.
We are wilful people.
It is not easy to conform to the Lord’s will.
I think of David.
Out of his love for God he wanted to build a house for Him.
He formulated the idea in his mind and he brought the idea to Nathan and even Nathan thought it was a good plan. 2 Sam 7:3 Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
The Lord had other plans.
If David saw fit to acquiesce to the Lord’s will, how much should we follow suit?
In 2 Cor 1 Paul had planned to go to Ephesus and Corinth and fully intended to go.
The Lord way laid him and he realized that it was not the Lord’s intent that he was to go.
So he had to change his plans.
Our plans must always yield to the counsel give us through prayer and reading of His words to know his plans.
2. Like Moses, we must choose authenticity over prestige.
(v.
24)
Let go look at that verse again.
Prestige vs authenticity.
When I look at the verse we just read I see in my imaginings prestige with the grandeur of Pharaoh’s court, the status of a son of Pharaoh and all that goes along with that.
But that not all of what prestige means.
pres•tige \pre-ˈstēzh, -ˈstēj\ noun
1: standing or estimation in the eyes of people: weight or credit in general opinion
2: commanding position in people’s minds
Those definitions are a little different that what my minds eye dreamed up aren’t they.
The first one especially falls into that category where we would like people to see us doesn’t it if we’re honest with our selves?
au•then•tic \ə-ˈthen-tik, ȯ-\ adjective
1 a: worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact
b: conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features
c: made or done the same way as an original
2 not false or imitation: REAL, ACTUAL
3 true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character
What strikes you in this definition?
Look at some of the words again.
Acceptance and belief based on fact, conforming to the original to reproduce the same, nothing false or imitation, true to spirit and character.
Moses show these traits to Isreal, based on what he had learned from his mother and the Lord.
From a worldly perspective, it appears he was giving up everything: all the prestige of the royal family.
I would have like to seen Egypt and what it was like during that time.
We can surmise, but we don’t know really.
We know from the story of his life that he wasn’t ultimately, but it would seem like to the secular world wouldn’t it.
What else can we learn.
The things that count greatly in this world are of little concern to the Lord.
There are many verses in the bible talking about the acquisition of goods and position.
Here is one of a broad number that I found.
Not much question about Jesus thought about the subject is there.
It’s just stuff.
It will become a mill stone around our necks.
God is concerned about our characters.
How we represent ourselves.
Ultimately we all have to settle the question of our identity.
So who am I? Who are you?
People spend a lot of time trying to figure that out.
The answer the world gives is, your are you unique.
Your are your own individual.
You belong to yourself.
Your aren’t beholding to anyone but yourself.
The motto: if it feels good and it pleases you, do it.
Are they happy?
Yah, for a time they are, but that self manufactured world eventually breaks down.
They may not haven any major troubles in there lives, but there is no fulfillment.
More and more I a lost and hungry look in people’s eyes when I connect with them in the ED.
Who are we?
Maybe we should say who’s are we.
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