New Year?s
We have arrived at yet another ?New Year?. I find it hard to believe that 2004 is gone, there was so much that I meant to do in 2004 that I have left undone. A New Year means different things to each and every one of us, I?m sure. To me, it means that I have another chance to reach out and tell someone else about Christ who was born and who died for our sins. It means that I have the chance to tell that friend, family member or co-worker that today is the day of salvation and that for any one of us, tomorrow may never come. It means that I have the chance to actually do that, and not just ?intend to?. By the way, tomorrow doesn?t ever really come, because, by the time what you called tomorrow yesterday arrives, it already is today.
This New Year means I have another chance to call someone that ?I?ve been meaning to? call. It means that I can take the time to visit someone that ?I?ve been meaning to? visit. It means that I have been blessed with another chance to listen to someone who just ?needs an ear?. Each year many folks start out with what are called ?New Years Resolutions?, and by mid-February, those resolutions have fast become a ?good intention?. It?s not that we didn?t mean well by what we ?resolved? to do in the new year, it?s because we just can?t seem to find the time to follow through with them. Or, maybe we set our goals too high. Well, several years ago, I quit making New Years Resolutions, because I knew that I would not follow through with them. Instead of New Years Resolutions, I ask God each day for the knowledge wisdom and strength to do His will that day. I ask for God to bless me with the ability to see the need in other folks? lives that I might serve them as humbly as Christ served His disciples in washing their feet. I ask God for all that I need to be the wife, mother, daughter, niece, aunt, cousin, or friend that would be honoring to Him. I mainly ask for what I need to be the God honoring child of His that I should be. So as we start this New Year, I hope that we all ask God what He would have us do each and every day, and how we can honor Him more as this year go on. Mostly I hope and pray that not only do we ask those things, but, that we DO those things. The following is a poem/song that I wrote a few years ago, it speaks of our many ?Good Intentions?.
Good Intentions
Life is filled with good intentions flowing from our souls.
Good intentions through our minds and bodies flow.
God did not intend for there; only to be; good intentions in our lives.
We must act on our intentions, and fill some soul with light, or our good intentions,
may condemn our souls.
Chorus:
Good intentions, man?s inventions
I don?t have time, that?s much too far to go
God had time to send His son and let Him die to rise again,
So our souls would not be condemned.
If God had only good intentions then where would be our souls,
when our time on earth has ended and to eternity gone?
Good intentions will not a soul enlighten.
Good intentions will not a smile bring.
Good intentions are only man?s inventions.
Don?t let good intentions condemn your heart and soul.
Sherry Griffin
May God richly bless and keep each and every one of us, may His sweet peace and wondrous love forever dwell within all our hearts, may that peace and love always be seen and heard in all we do and say, may each of us ask God what we can do for Him each and every day, may 2005 be the ?best year? of all our lives, and may we measure that through what we?ve done for God and not what He does for us, may we always be found, centered upon His will, in the hollow of His hand, and may we never forget that that is where He is keeping each and every one of us who are His.