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As we ring in the new year, let’s pause and take some time for a little reflection.  Regardless of whether or not you are the kind of person who is prone to making resolutions, God calls us to not drift along aimlessly through our days.  He tells us to consider our ways (Haggai 1:5) and to ponder our paths (Proverbs 4:26). 

I urge you to take some time to consider these ten questions that were posted by Don Whitney in his article “Ten Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year or on Your Birthday.”  (www.biblicalspirituality.org) 

1. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

While it is true that self-determination and sheer will-power will never lead to lasting change, for we can do nothing apart from Christ (John 15:5), it is equally true that we can trust God to strengthen us to do His will (Philippians 4:13) and to work in us what is pleasing in His sight (Hebrews 13:21).

In 2010, may we become a pondering people, who lay aside every hindrance and run with endurance the race that is set before us!