New year...New focus

It is amazing how much though we put in to a new beginning every year during the month of January. Many of those thoughts are weight loss, new routines, and even dreams to accomplish.

As I was thinking of my new years resolutions, God place in my mind Lot's wife.

God was saving Lot and his family from their city's destruction, and gave them only two things to do:

1. Do not stop

2. Do not look back

Easy?, it sounds so easy, but doing it is another thing...

We are women, we worry for nothing, we think too much, we dream of the future, and review the past, and yet if we want to get to the place God has for us, not only to be safe, but happy, we need to start our year really knowing God has a good place for us, and we only require to go front, believe Him that we are going forward, and NEVER stop until we get to that promised place.

What does that mean for me?

Well, every time that God has a vision, a promise, a plan for us, He has his part, and ALSO, we have ours.

His part is to provide, ours is to walk towards it (his provision/promise), to believe Him when He says: "I will save you", "I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and NOT to harm you" (Jer. 29:11).

Then, the only way to be able to have a "non stop" life is to NOT look back.

Lot's wife became a salt statue (Gen. 19.26). And the truth is, we are meant to be the salt of the world (Mat. 5:13), not a statue of salt that will never move.

What we do with the salt we are is entirely up to us. We can stay in the past and stop advancing, or we can use it to flavor our lives and others.

We can become a statue of unbelief, or a flavor of faith.

Each of us have a life purpose, but also, each of us have a 2012 purpose, the thing is are we going to advance and not look back? or are we becoming a statue of the past?

Past is not always a bad memory, or a failure, but it is still the past. I had an amazing life in Cincinnati, I love my friends from there, the ministry was the best, I miss every part of my life there, and Yet, God wants me to look forward and see how I am going to make his purpose here where I am now. I can not live with beautiful memories, I need to move forward to be able to be the salt and do what I am suppose to do this year. I am to trust God that my place is where I am now, and give my all to this present. I love to see what it is in front of me, and have hope in Jesus, and be hope in Jesus.

Then we have the worse type of past, the bad memories...those that come to attack our present and future, those memories that are against the plans of God for my life, those plans that can make me a statue of salt and STOP my vision, and God's will for my life, those memories that become a "take a coffee with the enemy" and listen to what it was instead of what it is, or what God has for me.

God has empower us to leave those past memories behind, and the question is not if we are able, but if we are willing to let them go, so we stop looking back, to be able to move forward to the best year yet to come...2012 a Year by the hand of our lovely Father. A year where our eyes are in what He has for me today.

Happy 2012!