New Starts and Resets

As humans I believe it must be part of psyche to know there are possible resets out there for us.   Times to renew ourselves and start over where we have failed.  These resets may be the new year, a new diet, a new choice for your life or recovering from cancer.

The biggest one for me is knowing I can be washed white as the first snowfall because I have a Savior.  My belief is this but the question is do I live my life like this?  If we do not strive to please a God that asks so little and gives so much then we definitely are not trying.  Here is where grace comes in…we can never try enough…we can never be enough for a pure and innocent God…for example after visiting my horse I emanate horse smell and its in my nostrils and the fibers of my clothes.  Horse smell will always stay unless I take a shower and wash myself clean.  The horse smell is strongest when the water hits my hair and before it’s washed clean.  This is how sin works, unless its washed away it will always linger on your soul.

Until this year I believed Christianity was like a get in free card–all you have to do is belong but I was wrong.  Although I have had numerous encounters with the spiritual realm that lies beyond our vision, God has never tugged at my heart as strongly as this year.  Yes, all you have to do is believe but when you really believe God starts asking more of you.  You belong to Him and he has plans for you. He’s just been waiting for you to be ready to listen to the grand plan.  Well guess what…God has started asking me this year.  Although this delights me at the same time this is a lot of responsibility and faith.  I started thinking about many of the figures in the Bible.  God rarely asks easy things of His faithful and honestly you kinda say, “Hey I didn’t sign up for this” and it comes back” Oh yeah, yeah you did”.  Overall, patience is the most difficult part.  You hear a sliver of your mission and you’re set to wait for when you are to be required to fulfill this.  Did you ever think about how that was for the disciples.  “Hey, follow me”.  Um, I don’t know about you but for me it would take a lot for me to give up everything I have and follow some stranger.  Well none of us have met a man like that but either way I think it would be a very difficult decision to make.

So I ramble on…but let’s just say I’m being tested for faithfulness to my Lord and its not easy.  I will follow where I need to but I feel the weight of my flesh and the pull of flesh on my soul and it is not easy.  I cannot see on the other side of the doorway I stand in and I have two dogs pulling at my heels to get me to step backwards.  I’m hopeful, excited and partially willing but fearful none the less.  I know it will not happen until I’m fully willing and fully able to make that jump.  I also know my actions are not without consequence.  Keep calm and carry on brave and faithful one and the Lord will deliver you.

I have a reset for my life purpose and in that I choose Christ–that entails a lifestyle change.  It requires discipline, boundaries, assertiveness, responsibility to my body and others’, and a quest to learn as much as possible to serve in the most benevolent way in walking this Earth.  What is your reset and how are you going to embrace it this new year?

God Bless You My Readers