ANew year…New goals…but perhaps, we need to return and not just look for the New. Let me clarify. Do you remember a time when your relationship with God was better than it is now? Do you remember when you were perhaps studying the Word, going to Bible study and engaged in discipleship or accountability? While those days may not have always seemed easier, you must admit, you were closer to God.
Sometimes we abandon what is hard for what SEEMS easier. But there is a way that SEEMS right that leads to destruction. (Prov 14:12) We tend to live in what we “think” or understand to be better. And easier SEEMS better…but that is a road that leads to destruction. If you really think about, although those days when you were pursuing God were hard, they were better. Why? Because your greatest joy is not found in the easiness of life, but in the pursuit of God Himself, who is our greatest joy.
You have to admit that while things might be easier when you don’t pursue, there is great loss in that for you. Less God, Less Jesus, Less Holy Spirit…Less guidance, less satisfaction, less in your relationships, less in your heart. It is just less apart from Him.
Jesus looks at us and says….
Rev 2:4-5
4 'But I have {this} against you, that you have left your first love.
5 'Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your lampstand out of its place-- unless you repent.
Perhaps New year and New goals look a lot like what you did at first or previously, when you were chasing Him and loving Him and not this life. We can choose what easy, but it is not better and the cost is great…He will remove your lampstand…the Light…unless you repent.

ALL FOR YOU