| | Ironic that I should be posting this so long after, and in such fitting contrast to my last post... God's funny like that.
I'm different. I am no longer the same person that so many of you knew at the beginning of 2008. My life is changing. I am taking steps in my life to be the person I've always imagined that God created me to be. While I don't necessarily like the steps I chose that got me to where I am today, I know that my God is doing amazing things. I have asked God questions about Him and about me, asked myself questions about what I believe about God and what I believe about me, hard questions I have never asked before. I have read books, talked to friends, talked to family, and gathered wisdom from those different than me, sometimes older. I've asked honest questions seeking honest answers, painful answers, from people whose answers I respect and trust. I am different.
I've learned where my healthy boundaries are (sometimes the hard way) and trust that God is going to increase those boundaries as I continue to follow Him with all that I have. I have put boundaries in place where I have never put boundaries in place before. I have said and done things that I have never said and never done before. I have done things, both good and bad, that people don't understand. I am different.
Now, in 2009, I want to take a stand for my God, to take initiative in so many things and just go out and go boldly, like the ones in faith did before me. I want to do it simply trusting that God is going to give me what I need to do what He's given me to do.
So here are my idealistic goals for 2009 that I think I can achieve by God's power:
1) I will settle for no deep, personal, romantic relationship with a female, real or "imaginary", that does not have our Lord Jesus Christ at the center of it. She will be treated with the dignity and love that our Lord God treats her with to let her know she is dearly loved and cherished. No exceptions.
2) I want to take better care of the physical shell that God has blessed me with for my time here, faults and all, and treat it with the dignity and respect worthy of something God himself has taken the time, effort, and energy to create.
3) I want to grow in the wisdom, knowledge, and character of my Lord Jesus Christ. I wish to daily grow into a deeper relationship with Him so that the gates of hell will never stand against the relentless power that my God brings through the Lord Jesus Christ, so fewer and fewer people will be held captive by it's lies and twisted deceptions. I want to be like Jesus.
4) I want to treat other people with the love, dignity, forgiveness and respect that my God has given to me. I want to give to them like He has given to me: freely, consistently, graciously, mercifully, and in abundance. They are His creation as well, and they deserve just as much as He has given me.
I love you all. May God bless you in abundance with all the good gifts He has to give. Amen. :) |
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