Transitions & Resolutions
It is the end of a year and the beginning of a year. We encounter and experience it every year. We also seem to mark each transition with a quick assessment and evaluation of the past and some prognostications and predictions for the new year.
I am not much for new year resolutions, but I am very interested in creating Goals, Objectives, and Standards (GOS). They function as my guide so that I can evaluate the investment of my life.
How have you invested this past year? How will you invest this upcoming year? Obviously, priorities are essential. As Goethe reminds us; Things that matter least must never come about at the expense of things that matter most.
Here are four biblical principles that can guide our priorities as we invest in the approaching new year.
- Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16
- Teach us to number our days that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12
- Beloved, do not love the world nor the things in the world. I John 2:15
- Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise let your mind dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8
We are all subject to the fall and that means that death will come. “The dash on the tombstone is the great equalizer.” As Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is a time to live and a time to die. But for those who have received the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, we are prepared to live forever.
Now the only question is: How will you live this year?
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
