RE_Boot

Welcome to 2019.

I trust your new year is off to a great start. And I hope you closed 2018 better than you entered. Or perhaps at least with a better perspective, if through difficult circumstances.

My apologies for the abrupt break in daily posts back in mid-October. While I've tried to keep personal matters from standing in the way of this undertaking, the truth is, I suffered the very thing we pray about daily. My energy level was getting low and for those frequent and consistent readers, you noticed the daily prayers were showing up at the end of the day rather than the start of the day. I was consistently playing catch-up. And that consistent state of engagement while drain you faster than simply entering with fresh energy and maintaining the pace.

What better time is there to do that, than the physical start of a new year. Hence the title.. RE_Boot.

Tomorrow is "back to work" day. And it should come with an accompanying spirit filled with excitement and rejuvenation. Should we not be as excited as the kids are to go back to school? Mine are. Perhaps yours are not. One day in and it's entirely possible you are not liking the prospect of how daunting this year appears. Yet there is a glimmer of hope and encouragement that it just might go better than planned, hoped or expected.

The positive outlook and steadfast hope that we attempt to instill in the lives of our kids from a young age is the very perspective we struggle to maintain on a daily basis, even when our social media pages are filled with memes that remind us that "tomorrow is a new book with 365 blank pages".

So, the question remains, what will God write in our lives this coming year? And more importantly, what will we write into and over the lives of our youth? Am I feeling a year older, thanks to a recent birthday? Yes. Am I ready for my kids to be a year older as well? Absolutely not.

All the more reason, to pray....

... on this #youthPastorWednesday, pray that we would be people who what not allow the troubles and trials of life to take such a toll on us that we pass it on to our kids. While we may fall and fail at various times, may we teach and train them in the process of rising again. May they not be controlled by feelings and emotions as many in today's culture are prone to do; but may they live under the influence and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Pray His presence would fall afresh in our own lives, as we enter the unknown of 2019. Pray that fear would not control our decisions, but that our faith would follow Christ into the ordained destiny that He has purposed for our lives from the foundations of the Earth and Time.

To the New Year:
May it be the best one ever
As directed by the Hand of God
For His glory alone.

- PNC