With 2010 rolling full steam ahead already, I've been thinking a bit this weekend about things I'd like to accomplish this year. It's mostly fun stuff--learn how to bake an amazing cherry pie, go for a hike somewhere new in the Virginia mountains, write more. Really, I'm not a big fan of resolutions. They typically end up as unfinished things you wish you'd continued or things you never even get started on all together. It's so easy to say things and promise to do things. Last weekend at church the New Year's sermon was on changing your perspective, which couldn't have been more timely for me. I don't have a lot of life changes coming up or a lot of big goals, and lately it seems life has turned into my own personal version of Ground Hog day a little bit. But the point of the message was that God wants to do great things in all of our lives this year if we step back and let him. That led me to thinking quite a bit about how I've viewed God lately, more as a perfect version of us instead of as God.Thankfully, this couldn't be further from the truth.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
So instead of setting 2010 goals, I'm setting a 2010 perspective: to stay focused on God, the God that chose to love me above all else, and remember He is so much more than a perfect version of humanity.
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