It’s Free Friday! Today is the day you let go of the things in your life that keep you down or hold you back. To celebrate, I’m giving away a copy of “The Power of a Half Hour: Take Back Your Life Thirty Minutes at a Time” by Tommy Barnett. Keep reading to find out how to enter.
Today is National Ditch Your New Year’s Resolution Day. It’s the day where we break the promises we made just a few short weeks ago. It’s the day where most people go back to their old habits instead of embracing the new ones that they wanted to create in their lives. It only takes us 17 days to realize that breaking old habits is hard and creating new ones is even more difficult. When things go from hard to difficult, we quit. We give up on our dreams of being a better person and dive right back into the way of life that we weren’t happy with.
Today, you have two choices before you. You can ditch your resolutions and go back to who you were last year or you can embrace the changes you want to make and keep moving towards your new story. One of those is easy and the other is not. No one can decide for you. Only you can choose to continue to be free of the things in your life that you’ve resolved to let go of. Only you can push on just a few more days until your resolution becomes a habit. It only takes doing something for 21 days to make it a habit. Why give up 4 days shy of it?
Each of us have things in our life we’d like to cut out and be free of. Each of us feel like we have a better story in us than the one we’re living now. The difference between those that live the story if their dreams and the ones who only dream is persistence. Those who make their dreams a reality don’t give up. They fight through when everyone else quits. They push forward when they hit a wall and then find a way around or over it. They are prepared for the mental battles that lie ahead. You can be one of those people.
I believe we were made to live extraordinary lives. I believe God has planted greatness in each one of us because He has given us His Spirit. Too often we accept a life of mediocrity because it’s easy. We give up on the life God has called us to because of all the road blocks. If God has called you to live an extraordinary life, why would you settle for one that’s ordinary? The people who settle for the ordinary are those who are going back on their resolutions today. You made a commitment to make a change this year, to live the life God called you to. Free yourself from the excuses that are begging you to go back to an ordinary life.
In John 10:10, Jesus said, “I came so that they (you) can have real and eternal life, more and better than they (you) ever dreamed of.” That gift of life that He wants to give isn’t easy to live. It never has been. It requires commitment on our part. It requires moving ahead when all we want to do is quit. It takes daily reminders that God is on our side and is there to cheer us on when things get difficult. You can live the life you’ve dreamed of if you’re willing to be persistent when others ditch their resolutions.
If you would like to win “The Power of a Half Hour” by Tommy Barnett, all, you have to do is go to my Facebook page here and “like” it. I will randomly pick one person tomorrow (January 18, 2014) who has liked my page. If you have already liked my page and enjoy reading these daily devotionals, please invite your friends to like my page so they can receive encouragement from God’s Word too.
Devotions by Chris Hendrix 