Aspiradical 2009?

I did a web search for ‘new years resolutions’ to see what would come up. To name a few, many of these had to do with managing finances, getting a better job, eating right, getting fit, learning something new, and even helping others. I was sadden to not see any that had to do sharing the gospel or becoming more like Jesus. Granted the sites reflect our culture, but even when asking Christ followers at random I found the same candid responses and even resolutions to make no resolution for fear of failure. I too, fall to these 'aspire-radical' responses.

I too sat down, as is my custom to do around the new year, to reflect on the nostalgia, accomplishments, and even failure to see what fun stuff I could recall. Then I found my list from last year and was happy to see that I , by the grace of Christ, had done some amazing stuff… and still have some things to go.

I decided this year it would be wise to align my resolutions with the heart of Christ. I think that in doing this that any other resolution, like needing to find a job, will come as He pleases. I must not retreat back in fear, as mirrored in the history of Israel and others (ha ha.. I can say this truly because I have read the O.T.), but instead move from my Kadesh Barnea and risk all in obedience for the glory and salvation of Christ.

Highlights of 08:

• I found more and more that Jesus Christ to be my forever treasure. My life is hidden in Him.
  
  
• A Taste of radical abandonment…. Seeing a dissonance between my life and Biblical Christianity.
  
  
• We glorify Christ by making disciples of all nations
  
  
• Learning that the Gospel demands radical abandonment, compassion, urgency, giving and real sacrifice.
  
  
• I worked M-fuge and had the best summer ever and meet some amazing Christ followers.
  
  
• Graduated college with a B.S degree in nursing.
  
  
• I lost my mother (she died) and my father again (to prison).
  
  
• Got to hang out more with my sister, Ana.
  
  
• I moved to a new place (pell city, al).
  
  
• Found a faith family to covenant(join) with here in Pell City.
  
  
• Made my first trip to Nashville with my FUGE friends!
  
  
• Read through the O. T.
  
  Objectives 2009:
  
  

To move from my Kadesh Barnea and risk it all in obedience for the glory and salvation of Christ. This will require me moving more from idealistic aspiration to penetrable implications in my own life.

Answer the question, “Will I give only of my life what we can spare, or what it is going to take to make Christ known to a lost world that desperately needs Him?

To walk with God, and tread the places He is treading.

Move outside the camp to the dirty and despised places, because that is where Jesus is. (Hebrews 13)

View life from the perspective of the sovereignty of God.

Trust radically in the providence of Christ.

Pour out my life into others.