The courage to get out of the boat
Jesus makes all things new. 2019 is a sign of that.
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There's something hopeful about a new year. Somehow, it gives us permission to let go of the things that were so bad the year before. Or, at the very least, it gives us hope that things are going to get better.
I can't promise that 2019 will be good for you, any more than I have control over whether it'll be good for me. I don't know what's going to happen. But, together, let's make the decision that 2019 will be the year we make positive changes. 2019 will be the year we approach everything with a hopeful heart. 2019 will be the year we trust God more. 2019 will be the year that nothing will stop us.
Sometimes, it can feel like the goal we're trying to reach is hopeless. It can feel like we carve and carve against rock, and yet nothing gets done. It's tempting to just give up. Heck, it'd be easier.
But we never know, do we, just what God has in store for us around the corner? That maybe we feel like He's let us down in a big way, that there doesn't seem to be a reason for the things He allowed to happen.
And maybe we'll never know that reason. Maybe, somehow, we just have to find a way to love Him anyway, because of how fiercely He loves us.
And just continue to be persistent, whether we're guaranteed that our hopes and dreams will come true. We keep going anyway. Because, somehow... God's got this. Even if it doesn't feel like it.
In 2019, let's be willing to work with God on Plan B. It may not be our plan. It may not even be what we saw for ourselves. But somehow... it's the plan that gives us hope.
It's that new job. The new friendship. The new house. Changing relationships. Finding a way to have hope after a tragedy. It doesn't mean that everything was supposed to happen a certain way in 2018. But it just means that, whatever happened... we can have hope that we're going to be okay.
Sometimes, God is our Plan B. Sometimes, the new normal is our Plan B. It doesn't mean that things are perfect. It just means there will be hope that, even if things never get to be exactly how we wish they were... God's going to get us through it.
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