Well, it's that time of year again. The time of year when I re-evaluate my life. There's something about the beginning of January...I suddenly feel motivated to keep my apartment clean, to eat healthier, to exercise, and to spend more time with God. The problem is that all that motivation goes down the drain when I forget about it in roughly 1 month.
Funny how a new year makes you think of all the things in your life you want to change. Every year, right at the beginning of January I re-evaluate my life. In all God's wisdom, He always places on my heart a need to seek Him more. EVERY year I make a goal to spend more time iwht God; more time in prayer, in the Bible, etc. The problem is my life really isn't in bad shape, so I trick myself into thinking "I can do this", it's so easy for me to forget that every good and perfect gift comes from God.
Why does God continue to use me as an example to others? I'll never know the answer to that question, but I'm sure He has a plan.
I don't want to make lofty promises this year. Right now, I do want to seek God more and cherish my relationship with Him, but I know a time will come, probably a time very soon, when I will once again think "I can do this", and God will have to bring me back here to this humbled state.
I think my goal for this year should be to live a life of excellence. I was recently reminded of what excellence looks like through a Young Life camp called Crooked Creek Ranch. They served campers above and beyond the call of duty and I was very impressed. It made me want to seek that mentality; the mentality that just passing isn't good enough, that a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich isn't good enough, not when I know I can do better, not when I can make a real meal.
That's what has been on my heart today, to be excellent in what I do, not perfect, not the best, not OCDC, but to excell in everything I try; to give it my all.
