WHAT'S MISSING

NETTIE-OLOGY Is it really going to be a happy new year? Last year was a happy time for me despite the struggle and as I often said: The struggle was real!

The difference between my perspective and the perspective of others is my faith.

JAMES 2:18
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

I find that people think a little differently from when James penned “I will show you my faith by my works.” I think, for many, people think: “You have faith and I have stuff!” My response is: “Show me your faith by your stuff and I will show you my faith by the joy I have doing what needs to be done.”

I enter a new decade of my life, I turn 60 this year, and I new season of purposeful living. I do not make new years resolutions but I do establish goals based on my purpose. I wrote my plans down on a giant post-it.

PROVERBS 16:9
A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

My plans were very clear. I spent most of 2019 laying the foundation for what was to happen in 2020. I have learned to set doable goals for myself thus, everything on my list was doable. But something was missing.  I did not have a plan for my soul or my body. 


"I do!” You are thinking to yourself. Yes, you started on your Bible reading plan- you do that every year. Yes, you joined the gym and you know how much weight you need to lose. You do that every year and then gain it back. You even have a goal to get out of debt. But, do you really have a plan that is doable?

I have a lifestyle of studying the Bible, I am comfortable with my weight and last year I eliminated my student load debt and a tax bill that was from my previous marriage; like I said- in 2019 I laid the foundation for 2020.

In 2020: What is my plan: To obey YHWH more? How will I love His children more? ONLY GOD can help me be a better follower of Yeshua. 

The same is true for being healthier. Last year I really struggled with my health, as I told my doctor: I had more days of pain than days of being pain free.  There have been days when I wanted to trust the doctors more than I trusted my God but I know that He has already healed me. EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION as to what I should eat and how I should exercise and what my prognosis is. But YHWH already solved this problem before I was even born.

ROMANS 3:4
Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”

What is missing? Yahovah Elohim.

JOHN 15:5
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

My goals for 2020 are based on my purpose, my January plans are good and they are better since I remembered JESUS IS MY FIRST PRIORITY.

QUESTION:  Do you have Martha goals or Mary goals?
                                                                                       written by Marsha L F Randolph

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