New Year, New Day, New Chance

You have made it to another year. We will take the time to look back at the many good things that happened and talk about the struggles that occurred. But the fact remains that today you get to set new goals. We start with a clean slate and get to try and reach the stars this year. Maybe some of your goals this year will be to lose weight, or to read the Bible everyday. I am not sure what goals you will set for yourself this year. I would like to offer a word of advice or caution depending on how you take it. When we set goals it will give us something to strive for. We should all want to get better or improve in areas of our lives. Unfortunately we set goal sometimes that don’t make a lot of sense. For instance maybe you are saying that you are going to go to the gym three times a week. But the facts are that you don’t currently go even three times a month. Now I’m not saying that you can’t pull it off, but be realistic with your goals. Try to set goals that are attainable and build upon them. Setting goals that have eternal impacts are always a great idea. The one thing I want you to know is even if you don’t achieve them; you’re not a failure. God loves you so much that when you mess up, He will dust you off and let you try again. We all mess up and don’t achieve everything we think we should. The way we achieve success is not only being able to achieve our goals, but it’s not giving up even when we fail the first time. Let’s make this year different in the terms of not only achieving our goals but not giving up when we don’t make it the first time.