The Bible says in Proverbs 29:
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 KJV
A vision for ones life is very important. Vision is defined as an imagined
idea or a goal toward which one aspires. But having a vision, a Godly
vision, a strategic vision for me in 2016 is one I desire. A vision that God
has His hands in, one that will glorify Him and bring Him the honor and
allow me to grow in Him. A resolution tends to fall apart or become
ineffective based on circumstances..but a vision when committed to and
devoted to will provide hope and clear direction. So this is my vision,
put to paper for 2016. I pray that God be glorified as I seek Him in
all things.
Vision for 2016 1/2/16
Life scripture
Have
I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed,
for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9
Character :
what character of God do I want to work on by glorifying God in 2016?
I desire
to love people the way God loves people....with unconditional love with no
strings attached...I want to see people the way God sees them and love them
regardless of what they have or don't have.
I want to just love the the way God loves them and give them grace and
compassion regardless if it benefits me or not....regardless if I gain
something for it...regardless if they
hurt me or invalidate me or devalue who I am...I want to love them with agape
love...selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love...the kind of love Jesus has
for me.
Skill: what do you want to learn or develop in
2016 that will help you to glorify God in your life?
A
disciple is a follower a learner....so if my desire is to continually be a disciple
of Christ and in addition to following Christ I want to learn more about Jesus
and the things he cared for. I will do that by reading...by learning...I will
read a book a month and will start with the books on my galaxy...I will write a
blog on them and let people know what I've learned and pass on the joy of Jesus
in my life
Goals: what
do you want to accomplish in 2016 that will bring God all the glory?
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things
are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by
anything. 13 Food is for the stomach
and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body
is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up
through His power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members
of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members
of a prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or do you not know that
the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with
her?
For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins
himself to the Lord is one spirit with
Him.18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits
is outside the body, but the immoral man sins
against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought
with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
To honor God by honoring the body
He gave me that is my goal for 2016 along with working on my character and my
skill.
In August 2012 I weighed in at
380lbs...a plate lunch away from 4 bills.
I committed myself to losing weight in my own strength and for my own
reasons under my own discipline..by the end of 2013, I had gotten to 295...the
lightest I had been since my mid 20s....but it was for all the wrong reasons
and done on my own strength with my own reward systems. Battling with Lori thru her cancer fight in
2014 and 2015 has taken its toll...I'm hovering at 330lbs, body sore and just
feeling unhealthy. Stress eating,
clothes tight and feeling like a failure...I'm have not honored God in my
health...yeah I work out a lot...but I eat like a pig....I have sinned against my own body by making food my god...by
running to the comfort of food and not running to God...there were times in the
weight loss of 2013 that I thought I was running to God...but as I look
back...I was running to my own self control..relying on my own strength and not
God's strength...I remember times being jealous of guys who I knew that were on
the same plan as me, the Dr. Suh plan..just kept losing and losing and maintaining...and me going the other way
and justifying it by using Lori’s cancer battle as an excuse....time for no more excuses...time
to honor God in my body and hold fast to His promises...even now...thinking
about this I am wondering what I am eating for lunch...lol...the addictive
nature of food...I am a food addict...and only through God’s grace, mercy and strength
will I be able to honor Him and my temple He gave to me.
Prayer
Father, I commit
these things to you today Lord that I put to paper for 2016. These are not resolutions, these are the
things that I truly believe that You have placed on my heart. To love you and to love people, to learn more
about Your Son and pass on His joy to all those willing to listen and to get my
temple back in line with the way you designed me to be. Lord, there will be many other lessons and
trials in 2016, and I will face them in Your strength with Your grace and in
Your timing…but for now, these are the 3 that I am asking You Father, to help
me walk through and into daily. Father,
to You be the glory in all of this and may people see Your wondrous, awesome
and sovereign nature. I love you God and
to You be the glory!
