Are you left feeling flat?
A real danger this time of year is after the celebration is over we are left feeling flat. The relatives all have to go back home to their jobs, and the reality of everyday life. The laughing, reminiscing, and fellowship time is over and the mundane, everyday life sets in. You worked so hard, and prepared for so many weeks to make everything perfect, and it is all over until next year. How can you help but to feel deflated? Was it because our focus was on the wrong things? How many of you as a family, gathered to worship? How many of you even said a prayer of thanksgiving before your meal, or a prayer of safety before your loved ones set out on the icy dangerous roads? Was your focus only on what gifts you were given or that you gave, that needed to be returned today for something you liked better or that fit better?
I am not going to sit here and pretend to be a saint, but I do know that in my own personal relationship with God, there is vast room for improvement. I need to turn my focus away from myself and how I am perceived by others, and toward the work we were commissioned for: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
The New Year is fast approaching, so let us look deep inside ourselves and see who we are and what makes us tick. Is it the accolades of others or what we do for others? Let’s start by thinking what resolutions we can make in the next few days to make us a better version of ourselves and role model for others. What better way to begin a New Year?
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark 16:15-16
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:19
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
II Corinthians 5:17