My New Year’s Resolution. . .
January 1, 2012
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. . .is to love God with all of my mind in 2012. This one seems to be a struggle for me (since I’m already being vulnerable in my blogs this week, I will confess that). This resolution has actually been on my list for a year or two, and although I know I won’t reach perfection until I pass through heaven’s gate, as a self-professed worry-wart, I would love to trade my “what-if” thinking for a more disciplined mind.
The Bible tells me that I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), that I received it when I accepted Christ as my Savior, as the only One who could free me from my enslavement to sin (including the sin of worry). However, I do not claim that promise often enough and instead of thinking of “whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, excellent and worthy of praise” (Philippians 4:8), I am often tempted to think of whatever is scary, worrisome, uncertain, out of my control, unlikely to happen, and harmful to my body and spirit.
Pastor John MacArthur has said, “Worry is needless because of God’s bounty, senseless because of God’s promise, useless because of its impotence to do anything pro…
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My New Year’s Resolution. . .
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