Mommies Coffee Break

If you read many blogs, you’ve probably seen a lot of talk about New Year’s Resolutions and Goals.  “Tis the season” to take a look back at what has been and look to the future with hope and anticipation.

Do You make New Years Resolutions?  Do you set Goals for the New Year?  Do you ascribe to a theme for a New Year?

For a lot of people, looking ahead usually includes making plans and setting goals.  I’ve found that making a big list of resolutions is frustrating for me because life happens so quickly and half of my plans fall by the wayside due to necessity.  The others usually fall by the wayside due to negligence, impatience, and even indifference…

So instead, I began to set a few goals.  There is a difference for me.  Resolutions are promises for me to stick to without wavering.  Goals are places to work toward.  Some have a firm deadline and others may be general goals for the entire year.

This year, however, I’ll consider this my theme for 2010:  Go Deeper.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Matthew 11:28 (Amp)

It has been something on my heart – something that God is calling me to do – Go Deeper with Him in my faith.  Allow Him to move deeper into my life – every area.

I’ll admit – It’s scary.

2009 held a lot of changes for me and I’m still considering much of what happened.  Still recovering from some things that happened, in fact.

But God is calling me to a more satisfying and richer relationship with Him.  Throughout my brief pregnancy and eventual miscarriage, I really felt God’s presence closer in than I have in quite some time.  The circumstances and complications I experienced were entirely out of my control, and it was necessary to be open to whatever was to be.

That was hard.

I like plans.  I like black & white.  I like Resolutions.  I like success.

To live every moment with no control and no say in the matter was very humbling.  Very scary.  Moving.  Life-changing.  Even freeing.

And the growth I experienced last year – personally and spiritually – seems to require some time to draw in closer to God and to go deeper with Him.

So while it really does Work for Me Wednesday, it’s going to work for me Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, too.

Studying His Word in a meaningful way.  Some inductive studies, some group Bible studies.

Prayer time using the A.C.T.S. format.

Morning quiet time with Him – in conjunction with deeper studies as often as possible.

Yielding myself to be a vessel both available and worthy of His use.  Being a tool He can use – a cracked pot to pour Himself through.

Going Deeper in my relationship with Jesus will take me deeper in my relationship with my husband, and with my children.  It will allow me to go deeper in ministry and sharing God’s Love and His Message of Redemption.

But it requires one thing I’m not fond of – Death to Myself.  And that is where the struggle lies.  The Battle for my soul already won, it is just a matter of my surrender to Him daily and following Him into the fire.

And Jesus called [to Him] the throng with His disciples and said to them, If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me]. Mark 8:34 (Amp)

And that absolutely will Work for Me…

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