JANUARY 1ST
John 20:21
“As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Every new year we try to make new resolutions in the hope that we will change. This year we propose that you adopt the following 10 resolutions so that you can really live your life as a witness!
Resolution #1: I will increase my sense of ‘sentness’!
Jesus carried his sense of sentness with him everywhere he went. He knew that God had put him into this world for a purpose and he wanted to live every moment with that purpose. John the Baptist had that same sense of sentness. John 1:6 tells us, “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”
The Apostle Paul had this same way of looking at life. He writes to the Corinthians, “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
Take this year to grow in your awareness that every interaction with every person is an opportunity to represent Jesus to the people around us.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
As you go through this day, with each encounter ask, “Lord, how do you want to speak to this person through me?”