Goals

What are your goals for 2015?  As I reflect this week and yesterday on goals for this year, there a number of things I hope to accomplish, change in my life, and become more like Jesus Christ.  These verses focus on "a goal" that fuels the fire for what I want to be.

Live to Please the Lord.  "So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are home in the body or away from it" (2 Corinthians 5:9).

Love with Integrity. "The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith" (1 Timothy 1:5). 

Finish Well.  "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus"  (Philippians 3:14).

Love God.  Love Neighbor.  Jesus replied:  "Love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of you mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.  All of the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:37-40). 

For these verses to be a reality in my life in 2015, I daily need God's abundant grace to guide and sustain me for apart from Him I can do nothing (John 15:1-5). So as we embark on new year, I am excited to see what God will do in and through me for His glory.