December 30, 2024

Happy New Year!

Does that greeting lead to any thoughts about possible changes for the better in your life next year?

In other parts of the world people do some odd things on New Year’s Eve to try to ensure changes in the coming year. In Russia, there’s a tradition of writing wishes on a piece of paper, burning it, and then drinking the ashes in a glass of champagne! In Turkey, people sprinkle salt on their doorstep at midnight to assure peace and prosperity in the new year.

My personal hope for the new year is that there will be a widespread recognition of the truth found in God’s Word that, as individuals, we all fall short in God’s sight. This one critical insight is what allows us to understand and accept Jesus’ offer to put our hopes and desire for the change that God is looking for in His hands. If you haven’t done that yet, that’s the one life changing event that I hope you will experience in the new year!

My coaching goal is to help my clients to find this new beginning and to help them travel a new road that leads to becoming the people that God made them to be, new people in partnership with the Holy Spirit! It’s the same goal that is beautifully stated by Frances Brook in 1896 when he wrote the hymn, “My goal is God Himself, not joy, nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God.”

As Charles Stanley observes, “His commitment to you is lasting…His friendship never changes.”

Does the transformation that God is looking for, and offers to each of us, sound like a worthwhile goal for the new year?