HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My friend, Tara, posted this New Year Commitment prayer on her blog Story Formed and I thought I would share it with all of you. I found it to be challenging, and honestly there are things on this list that I don’t really feel like committing to, but I want to feel like committing to them – I do want to be this type of person…

New Year Commitment

We will not live a secluded, private faith

We will enter this new year through the door marked “COMMUNITY”

We will not pretend to be something other than what we are

We will enter this new year through the door marked “AUTHENTICITY”

We will confess our brokenness and our shortcomings, but not remain there

We will enter this new year through the door marked “HOLINESS”

We will not live in status quo, in fear of failure

We will enter this new year through the door marked “RISK”

We will turn down the volume of the noise in the world around us

We will enter this new year through the door marked “LISTEN”

We will give of ourselves and our possessions, holding on to nothing

We will enter this new year through the door marked “GENEROSITY”

We will not despair in the midst of a dark world

We will enter this new year through the door marked “HOPE”

We will work at mending old relationships and building new ones

We will enter this new year through the door marked “LOVE”

We will cast aside those things we find security in outside of God

We will enter this new year through the door marked “TRUST”

We will pour out our lives for the sake of our King and for one another

We will enter this new year through the door marked “SACRIFICE”

We will enter all these doors, following Jesus who has gone before us. He has turned the handle on each, thrown the door wide open and bids us to come follow Him.

FOR THE KING AND HIS GLORY, WE WILL ENTER EACH DOOR.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Rejoicing in the journey - Bethany Stedman