Reflections

As we enter into a new year, the year of 2020 vision (the only year we’ll get to use this), I can’t help but be grateful to God for the gift of life, friends, family, health and many more. Through the course of the year, we all experienced ups and downs but through it all, the Lord brought us out stronger. In preparing for the new year, I thought it best to look back at some of our popular posts of the year and don’t worry, we won’t turn into a pillar of salt. First off, I’d like to say thank God for the inspiration to finally start my own blog and for each article that has been posted and thank you to all my faithful readers (special shout out to Champs and FemT).

We started of the blog with a post titled ‘Still Rolling Stones’. In the post, we talked about the grace of God. Just as a rolling stone gathers no moss, so does grace cover us and ensure that our sins and mistakes do not stick to us. Just as Romans 8:1 says: There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. As we go into 2020, keep this in mind!

Next up was a post on ‘Capacity Building’. The essence of this post was about the need for us as Christians to constantly build our capacity in anticipation of the next level God is taking us to. After all, the bible itself asked us to study to show ourselves approved unto God (II Timothy 2:15). As we go into 2020, be intentional about building your capacity.

Next bus-stop? One of my favorite things about being a Christian, faith! The post was titled ‘Faith:the currency of the born-again Christian’. As we go into 2020, there will be things that will test our faith. Situations that will look impossible! But remember this, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you will move mountains (Matthew 17:20). The post was inspired by a message titled ‘It’s about the faith, stupid’.  Sticking with the topic of faith, is another of our posts titled ‘Sustaining Faith’. This post looked at the life of Job and all the trials and tribulations he went through. The phrase was gotten from a Joel Osteen devotional. When you are in the middle, that point between when the excitement of starting has faded away and the joy of finishing or winning, we need sustaining faith; to ensure we never give up.

Who is in your room? Weird topic for a blog post, right? This came at a time when I was experiencing writer’s block but we thank God for giving us a word through Pst. Steven Furtick on IGTV lol. This post looked at the story of the girl Jesus brought back from the dead. In life, people will always leave us or reject us but the most important thing we can do is to ensure that no matter what, Jesus is in the room with us. How? By letting Him in. He already told us, that He stands at the door knocking, waiting for you to let Him in (Revelations 3:20).

Then came the Easter period and with it, Easter turkey and a hot post titled ‘He is Risen’! Through the course of 2019, there are goals that we may have written down for the year, resolutions that we made and were never met, dreams that faded away for one reason or the other; this post is there to remind you that the same God that rose Jesus from the dead will bring every dead thing or desert back to life again. Go into 2020 believing that God has resurrected all our buried dreams, hopes and aspirations and trust in Him to bring them to pass in Jesus name. Amen!

As we wrap up 2019 and reflect on it, I'd like to ask: what is your perspective? Life is all about perspectives. This is one of my favorite sayings! Why? Because as we go through life and face different situations or disappointments, it is important we keep the right perspective. In 2020, as we chase our goals and dreams and hang on to the promises of God which are Yes and Amen, it is important that we keep the right perspective. Jesus is our Lord and Savior and not a single word that He has spoken will return to Him void. Keep this in mind as you go into the New Year!

As we go into the New Year, the charge is simple, remind yourself that in God there is no condemnation, have faith, build your capacity and keep the right perspective; after all, His promises are Yes and Amen! Happy New Year everyone.

Photo Cred: New Year