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live fa i t h abundant
living
in 2018 by bertrand griffin ii, associate pastor at broadmoor united methodist church n ew year?s resolutions are o?en blown off or forgotten by the middle of january each year. but thriving in our
faith
and
living
abundantly means doing things differently. let?s look at what this means. when we make a resolution, we o?en do so without having the tools we need to be successful. however, when we begin from a position of our
faith
, we allow for our spiritual tools (prayer, scripture, meditation, etc.) to support the accomplishment of our plans and goals. another aspect of resolutions is that we o?en set them with arbitrary, faulty, societal standards.
living
our lives, not by the world?s standards, but through our
faith
, allows us to be free from setting standards and simply
living
by the ones established by our creator.
living
by our creator?s standards also brings promises. john 10:10 shares a promise with us that jesus came to give us
life
, and that
life
would be abundant. our
faith
helps us to believe in this statement. our hope keeps us focused on this statement. but what is abundant
living
? it is
living
engulfed within god?s love, the very love that created us. abundant
life
is being content with who you are and whose you are. it is
living
life
in all its fullness, not as the world defines it, but as christ defines it. finally, we o?en set resolutions without fully knowing why. but the why of our
faith
is to have a deeper relationship with our creator. this relationship is a foundation that will sustain us in good and even in turbulent times. our
faith
allows us to have peace even when things don?t go as we may have hoped. so, when we look at the time we would have spent setting a resolution, we realize that precious time would have been wasted. but our
faith
assures us that none of our time is ever wasted in christ. choose to live deeper in him this year, and abundant
life
will come, even without a list of resolutions. ? 4 2 b r p a r e n t s . c o m | j a n u a r y 2 0 1 8
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