2011: The Year of Action

Imagining. I think I do too much of it.

Imagining is easy. It requires no commitment, no plan, no action steps, no second thoughts, no real work.

Acting. Acting is a bit harder. It almost scares me to think how much I could have accomplished if I acted on 2 percent of my ideas.

In reflecting on 2010, I've realized I'm really reflecting on how much I didn't do. I have complete admiration for my roommate who last fall mentioned an idea for a fundraiser in passing and, BAM, three months later it happened. See, the problem with acting is the possibility of success. I don't think we are deterred so much by failure as we say. With success comes responsibility, commitment, follow-through, reflection.

Deep down, success terrifies me. I'm a big weenie when it comes to responsibility. I choke. I want to defer blame to someone else. Isn't that how we all are? I'll take the credit for my good deeds and blame God for the bumps in the road. The only problem with that is God. He demands his glory all the time. Therein lies incredible freedom.

How liberating it is to know that I will never be at the top!

Jesus is! He reigns!

Here's to a year of making little of me to make room for much of Him.

2011 will be the year I act for His glory, His fame, His renown, and His praise, with His power, His grace, His mercy, and His love.

God, have your way with me. Do mighty things through me in Dothan, Alabama. Give me faith to step forward and see my divinely-inspired ideas to fruition. You are so worthy. Thank you for your promise to finish the work you have begun. Take away all my desire for meaningless things. Set my eyes on your eternal glory. Reveal the temporary nature of everything surrounding me. Set my heart ablaze for the perishing. Give me a new love for my enemies. I ask all of this in your Son's name with full assurance by the grace given me through Christ's shed blood. Exalt yourself in my life for your eternal glory and my everlasting joy. Amen.