NOT TOO LATE TO MAKE CHANGES
Although the new year has begun, it is not too late to take inventory and re-evaluate our lives. We can still prioritize by removing and reviving and realigning our lives. Check to see where you are, in relationship to God's plan for your life, and then make the changes, regardless of how costly or difficult the changes may seem to be. The cost of faithfulness is not nearly as costly as the cost of failure to follow.
* Are there extraneous things in your life that are hampering your fulfillment of His calling and leading? Get rid of them, whether great of small, no matter who or what it involves.
* Are there things missing from your life, which are essential to success in serving God? Add them.
* Are there changes in habits, relationships, activities, desires that need to be dropped, picked up or moved around? Do it. You only get one shot at this life, don't mess it up.
Sometimes the changes are not changes based on inherent evil, but based on specific needs.
In order to be more successful (faithful) in an area of my life for Jesus, I may need to curtail or remove things, which are not evil.
* Growth means change.
* Adventure entails change.
* Success (faithfulness) requires change.
Changes (aside from sin) that I have had to accommodate in order to move forward in my relationship and stewardship and partnership with God are in the realm of activities, group involvements, pets, personal pursuits, goals attitudes habits, idiosyncrasies.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE to make changes, but if you don't make the right changes now, while you can and when you should, by the time you realize the cost of not making the changes, it may be too late to redeem the time and your losses will be irretrievable and irreversible.
Ephesians 5:14-17
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Colossians 4:5-6
(5) Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
(6) Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
