PASTOR’S CORNER, Elizabeth Morgan, First Church of the Nazarene, Liberal
Job 8:7: "Although your former state was ordinary, your future will be extraordinary."
As we look to 2025 as a year to renew our goals, aspirations, and lives, let us look at these words in the book of Job.
This man went through losing his family, crops, animals, servants, and his own health, but yet he always looked toward God for renewal and deliverance. Even when the devil tried to turn him away from God, Job knew who he served.
In our lives, we don’t always see our full potential and like to settle for less than what God made us to be. Each year we set “new resolutions,” but how many of us actually achieve them? Probably less than half of us. Why is this you may ask?
Most of us are making unachievable or unrealistic goals that sound great, but we know that in the end after a week, or a couple of months life gets busy and/or stressful and we lose sight of those goals.
A pastor from Life.Church said this past Sunday, “Why do tomorrow what you can do today?” What an excellent quote to think about as we enter into a new year. I often say to my son, who loves to talk about “tomorrow”, “what if tomorrow doesn’t come?” See all of us are guilty about looking towards the future, but are almost never in the present. Think about all that precious time that is wasted.
I want to encourage you to look at your life today and see where God could be calling you to. Are you willing to start today with what you had planned for tomorrow?
God has a special purpose and plan for 2025, and I pray that we all answer that call and take up the cross set before us to win others for Christ. That should be the goal every year.
Let me leave you this verse as we look into the new year and may you be blessed. May God rid past hurts, sins, and brokenness and give you a new path with Him.
Isaiah 43:18-19: "Don’t remember the prior things; don’t ponder ancient history. Look! I’m doing a thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it? I’m making a way in the desert, paths in the wilderness."
