I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions. But upon reading an article in the most recent "WORLD" magazine by Andree Sue, I've decided I'm going to borrow her ideas for a New Year's and life long, resolution. (Quotes that aren't documented are from Andree Seu's article).
To simplify, her three wishes for the new year, and mine also, were:
1. Pray to have friends who have more faith than you do.
"It is much easier to understand the Scriptures when you have a living, breathing, walking example beside you."
2. Get rid of everything doubtful in your life.
"Let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God." (2 Corinthians 7:1). "If anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work." (2 Timothy 2:21).
"I learned from them (communists). As they allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I would leave not the smallest place for Satan in mine." -Richard Wurmbrand, "Tortured for Christ".
3. Master the tongue.
"Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit." (1 Peter 3:10; Psalm 34:12-13).
3 comments:
Wonderful!
Those are good, I'm still trying to understand the second one. The quote from Wurmbrand is really helpful, though. That really narrows it down! Thanks for sharing your heart, Sara. by Jan
Jan,
One thing I thought of immediately when I read the article by Andree Seu, was the Justice League movies I mentioned in the last post. They aren't bad per se, but from Ezra's comment and the ideas he was getting about what "good guys" do, it was not promoting a Christian world view.
Also, some of the shows Jonathan and I watch wouldn't necessarily be classified as "bad", but if they aren't good, then what are they? Really, just complicated time wasters.
I don't want to be too restrictive, because I know that my personality will get tired of that and throw off any restrictions and go the other way. Which is just as wrong as being legalistic.
I guess what I took away from that point was, mainly, to be more discerning about the things I let occupy my time and thoughts. As well as those of my kids.
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