Good morning,
compliments of the season, and welcome to our Pre-Christmas post. Today I am excited! Not that I won a lottery though,
but excited nevertheless.
My Christmas tree
isn’t up yet, but I am so excited that somehow, even though I am not good at
decorations at all, I am going to do my best to put it up today, and if I am
not able to do a good job of it, I will solicit help to get it done.
So why am I so
excited then? Hmm, maybe because I could
sense the excitement in my team as I walked into the office this morning. They
are excited that we are closing for the year today! I feel them, because even I
don’t want to work another day in 2011.
But more than the fact that we are closing shop at the office is that,
looking back, we can say we have had a great year, and mean it!
God has been
extremely good to us, and if we don’t acknowledge the fact that He has been, it
will be ingratitude of the highest order. But my excitement also goes beyond
the fact that we have had a good year.
So what is the cause of such great excitement? Hmm, you still have to wait a bit.
Last weekend, I
was at a retreat with my awesome sisters and by the end of that retreat, I felt
brand new. Some how, the fact that God
loves me so much, as demonstrated by our time with Him at the weekend, just
makes me want to climb on the roof top and announce that God loves me, and I
know.
Yesterday, I had
the opportunity to teach in Church something that God spoke to my heart a few
days ago, and as I taught it, it dawned on me that I will not need to struggle
next year. I will not need to struggle,
not because I have perfected the art of growth, both personally or in business,
but because God loves me just the way I am, and He would rather I come to Him
cracked and broken just the way I am, so He can do all that I cannot do.
My text from
scripture was taken from Genesis 2:25, “Now the man and his wife were naked,
but they felt no shame.” I saw through this scripture for the first time that I
didn’t need to have a strategy for everything. I saw that I didn’t need to have
the ‘i’s dotted and‘t’s crossed. With
God I can trust that every time I come in faith, trusting in His ability to be
able to scale through, I do not only make it; I excel. This is the cause of the
excitement that I feel.
I am excited just
looking at this information against the backdrop of what God helped us achieve
this year. We may have tried but it wasn’t because of that we had a good year;
it was because God Himself stuck to His own plan and executed it on our behalf.
I am sure you are
wondering how this helps you in living your dream; shouldn’t I be giving tips
on how to begin in the New Year? Yes, I
could be doing that, but I can assure you it won’t yield much, except you know
the source of your dream and hear His instructions for you to excel.
I guess I am
excited because I have deliberately considered this year and I have come to one
conclusion, that if it was not for God behind us, we will not be standing
today. This is why I am confident that
if I stick with Him and listen to His instructions for me, next year will
definitely be greater than this year.
Your year may not
have gone the way you wanted, but know that God doesn’t make mistakes. As long
as you are connected to God He has your life all planned out. He wants us to be able to come to Him, naked
and unashamed. With God our dignity is non existent, and it is okay to be
broken. He wants to have a reason to
invade our lives on a daily basis. Take
out the facade, and next year will be great, if you will rely on His plan.
Till next post,
remember that because you are connected to the best and only God ever, you will
make it, NeverTheLess.
Merry Christmas
Sistar B
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