I Need to Change!

I love the title of our current series at Bell Creek!  I am also being heartily challenged by it's content.
I have been feeling the effects of doing things under my own strength recently,  I need to change.  I need to reset my priorities.  I know that our ministry needs to flow from the overflow of our relationship with the Lord but sometimes, perhaps in the face of a hectic schedule or some outside circumstance, especially when there is a certain structure to follow or a grove to fall in to, it is possible to just go through the motions.  I don't want to be found going through the motions we can't afford it!
The Lord wants our whole hearts!

I have started and stopped and started again reading through the Bible this year.  I know that I am not faithful to follow through with so many of my stated intentions.
I know that I must, rather, focus on drawing nearer to the Lord.  It isn't about the rules that I follow but rather the evidences of my conduct which are revealing my desire! 
Lord, be my desire this week!
Take Care,
Grant

Reading the Bible in One Year

I know it is already January 6th. I am a little slow getting the new year resolutions moving forward. I always have slightly mixed feelings about embracing New Years resolutions as they tend to just provide another example of my own inability to follow through with anything. And really if we are looking for fresh starts then we don't have to wait for the coming of a new year.

As the song/psalm goes...



The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases

His mercies never come to an end

They are new every morning

New every morning

Great is Thy faithfulness O Lord

Great is Thy faithfulness



There is no escaping, however, the feeling that things can start again with the new year and what is wrong with embracing the circumstances that can give us a little more motivation to make the changes we would wish to see?

Phil 2:12b-13 says we should "..continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose"



So embracing the fresh start of a new year and a christmas gift from Jason of a really great new Bible I am endeavering to read through the whole bble in a year. I have no intention of being a show off in blogging about it, but I do hope that writing about the process might give me some acountability as I attempt to draw nearer to the Lord this year through time in the word.

My secondary hopes are that it may be a springboard to my worship thoughts and filter its way into a fresh experience of worshiping together as a worship team serving the church and as a congregation worshiping and witnessing in our community.



Hopefully more to come soon!

Grant