With the start of the new year its a great time to reflect and see what God has done for us. Also reflect and see what we get to do for Him. We need to look at ourselves and see what we need to change.
Was it a bad year spiritually that's ok dust yourself off and move forward, was it a good year spiritually good for you but keep moving forward don't rest where you are.
Maybe like a lot of us, the year was neither good nor bad, but we had ups and downs and we feel like we’re just maintaining; we need to take heed!
Revelation 3:15-16
I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth."
We need to make sure where we are looking:
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich.
We need to remember where our true riches lay. If I am not personally content, I cannot say: “for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:11-12)
And the next verse goes on to say:
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
But it’s not ALL things, it’s not things that aren't holy, though I have that choice, it’s not things that are self consumed, He give us strength to serve Him not to serve our self. My lack of contentment is the desire to serve myself; to feed myself; not to serve and follow Him. It has been said two men were in prison one looked though the bars and saw mud the other looked through the bars and saw stars. Am I looking up to Him or down at mud. Look towards Him this new year no matter where the old year has left you. In whatever state you where in strive for your eternal Home, not here.
Make this year be the year you can truly say: “To live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).