2015

2015. It's seemed far away didn't it? Well, it's here and we already only have 364 days left in it. What will you do with them? I've never made a habit of making New Years resolutions, but what if we made a New Years dedication? What if we opened up our 2015 with something like this:

Father, I have a year ahead of me. It's new, it's uncertain and it's Yours. I don't know what will happen today, tomorrow, next month or next winter, but I know that You do. As I take on what You have for me this year, let me use that to become more like You. Let guilt bring redemption, let criticism bring improvement, let sorrow bring dependence, let brokenness bring peace, let evil bring Your glory, let sin bring salvation and most of all, bring glory to Your name through Christ in me. May it be made clear to those around me that You are my focus, my goal and my life.

That's my goal for this year. That's my goal for my life. What's the point of being around unbelievers or anyone if we aren't constantly pointing back to Christ? In day, in night, in health, in sickness, in joy and in pain, and in 2015, God must always be glorified. 

That's not easy though. Tomorrow I leave for a weekend at Districts Youth Conference in Green Bay. It will be easy there. I will have spiritual education around the clock for 3 days. There will be thousands of teens praising God and giving there lives to Him, I will simply sit back and watch to see what God has to tell me and give Him the glory for it. However, I'm going home on Sunday and school comes back Monday. What about then? How does Christ become my focus in the middle of a week where I am running from event to event to homework to friends to family and to myself? There needs to be a consistent effort from me and those around me. So I ask for your prayer. Ask God to work in me this weekend and to make Himself obvious in me throughout 2015.