It’s all about YOU?
A New Year is just a couple days away.
In spite of the New Year resolutions many will make, most will enter the new year as the same person they were on December 31. Most want from a new year not so much change in themselves as they do different circumstances.
But a change in circumstances doesn’t equal a change in self. It doesn’t represent growth, maturity, or accomplishment. Circumstances may change a little or a lot without any change in the person.
That’s why many will end the new year much the same as they went into it.
Growing, developing, maturing, or improving doesn’t happen simply through circumstantial change, it comes only by real change in oneself.
What are you going to do with you — not your circumstances — but you, in 2012?
Scotty
December 30, 2011 at 12:03 am
What indeed Scotty! I completely agree that growing, developing, maturing, or improving comes only by real change in oneself.
If I may add a thought to that, positive changes occur through intentional change in oneself. With that a question: do you know what ought to be changed? Myself, I find taking that sort of thing to the Lord in prayer yields the answer!
Happy New Year Scotty!
December 30, 2011 at 12:06 am
I completely agree Chris, good stuff! Growth of any kind can't be forced, it must be purposefully pursued and/or received … intentional. And it takes communion with the Lord to know the right changes to pursue. I pray you have a blessed new Year!