Your Power

Your Power:

Every New Year brings with it the ominous task of forging a New Year’s Resolution. Then, just as quickly as the new year had begun, we flounder and relent concerning our declaration of renewed vigor and steadfastness. Readily, seemingly effortlessly, part-cheerfully & part-ashamedly - we resume our former course with only the occasional reflection upon what might have been if we’d "only had the resolve and fortitude" to persevere in that particular thing... If only.

This year my prayer and hope for you is that you make no such cockamamie resolution. Rather than endeavouring upon a hopeless mission of futility... Instead of embarking upon a journey doomed to ruin and tragic disappointment - this year will not be a year of resolution, but INSTEAD one of resignation, renunciation, relinquishment, acquiescence, and surrender. Not simply to some nebulous “higher power,” but to Jesus - our God, our King, and our Savior.

There are only two paths your life can take. There is the path that you choose for yourself, and there is the path that God chooses for you.

No matter how many Bibles you own or how many church services you’ve attended... No matter how many causes you’ve contributed to or mission trips you’ve been on... No matter how many hours you've spent or spend in prayer or reading devotionals... If YOU are still the one planning and plotting the course of your life - and not God, then you are lost and deceived. As Proverbs 14:12 reads, “There is a way that seems right to a person, but in the end it leads to death.”

The path/course that God chooses for you was never FULLY revealed to you. God may have given you a glimpse of the nature of your calling: medical, teaching, parenting, carpentry, pastoring, business, etc., but this was your field of ministry - NOT your path. God’s path is revealed to us in bits and pieces. That is why He calls it our “daily bread,” and “a lamp for my feet.”

In Psalm 31:15 the Psalmist sings, “The course of my life is in Your power...” What joyful surrender and assurance of abandonment!

Rather than embarking upon another fleeting and failed New Year’s Resolution, let this year be a year of REAL POWER - the true power and authority of Christ’s reign upon the throne of your heart and life.

This year may your daily and ongoing prayer be that of the joy, assurance, surrender, and recognition of the Psalmist:

“The course of my life is in Your power.”

Blessings in 2016,

-Kevin