The end of the year can bring a sense of regret and possibly failure as we look back at the events of 2008. Often there are things left undone from our lists formed 12 months earlier, and if we allow their completion or lack thereof to dictate how we evaluate the year, or ourselves for that matter, we can experience guilt. Guilt arises when we have made the plans for life change and have selected the goals ourselves. When this is the case, we then operate in our own strength, which always leads to failure.
Please be freed from the guilt that burdens us when we judge ourselves according to human expectations (which most resolutions are), and know that God evaluates you by His expectations, not your own. When God calls you to do something, He has committed to provide all you will need to see it through to completion.
Do not allow any unmet goals to make you feel less victorious than you are in Christ. Do not allow your expectations to suppress God's potential in your life. Do not allow your discouragement to keep you from following God passionately in every thing He calls you to do.
Remember Life Change is only possible through the power of God in your life. He alone can change us, He alone who saved us.
Move beyond '08, and know that we who are in Christ have been forgiven completely of every sin.
forgiven and freed,
Bro. Wade
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