2012 is underway,
and the wishes for a Happy New Year are dying down. While I certainly hope that
this calendar year is a great one for everybody, I generally tend to just focus
on one day at a time. Instead of striving for a good year, I just want one good
day at a time.
The problem with
putting so much focus on having a good year, is if it starts off on a bad note,
or even if it goes south in June, we may write the whole year off and begin to
look forward to 2013, thus wishing our way through several months. If we focus
on each day, then even if we have a bad day, there is always tomorrow, this new
chance to have a better day.
Like having many
days in a year, many chances to have a new beginning, so the Christian life
provides many opportunities to begin anew. Jesus said that in order to follow
Him we must pick up our cross daily
and follow Him. I’ll be honest, there are some days that I don’t do that at
all, and some days that I only give it half effort.
When those days
come, we simply need to repent and make tomorrow a better day. Instead of
focusing on your entire life, or even 2012 for that matter, focus on today.
Make today be a day that you take up your cross and follow Jesus. And when
today is over and you wake up in the morning, focus on that day.
The best way to
have a happy new year is by living a holy life one day at a time.
“And He said to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
Luke 9:23
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