New Year's Resolutions or New Year's Realizations?

New Year's Day always seem to launch people into a desire for change! We come up with our list of things we think we need to stop doing, start doing or change how we are doing. We call that list our New Year's resolutions. How long does that list usually last? A week, a month; maybe a few months if we're lucky. Why? Because being "successful" in our resolutions is based entirely on our ability and our performance.

As 2015 begins, I'd like to suggest a different perspective. Instead of focusing on what YOU should DO this year, focus on what GOD has DONE, what HE is DOING and WHO you ARE in Him! For the child of God, realization of reality is much more effective in producing real change than our attempts at performing differently in order to change. God is really not waiting for us to start acting differently; He is waiting for us to realize who we are and Whose we are! 

He is waiting for us to live out who we really are instead of staying stuck in who we think we are. We are children of the King, co-heirs with Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit. We are destined for greatness...a greatness that reflects the Great One and His Kingdom! When we really believe that, change becomes a natural result! When what we do becomes about the Kingdom of God, when our obedience flows from a heart of love for Him & others and when the thoughts allowed to take up residence in our mind agree with what God declares...then our lives will actually look like the person God has created us to be!! 

So in 2015...be who you really are in Him, walk out love-based obedience and watch God work!