Hello there!
Here at the Rasbeary patch, we are all about Christian growth! No matter how old or how much training we have had, we will never reach perfection. I even find as I get older that I must relearn things I once thought I had well in hand. So I pray this post will be an encouragement to those who are putting off that new endeavor or who are procrastinating on conquering a stronghold of sin.
Every year we set new resolutions for ourselves (or we should). I have a post I wrote for a Sappsolutly wonderful friend(inside joke for my friend) if you are interested in why I think we should set goals. The link will take you there! Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That
Usually the problem is not setting the goals or even starting the process. Rather that we fail to prepare our life for the changes. We seem to have in our mind it will never work. This results in us doing things half way. Or we try to start so many new things our mind tires of all the change.
Let us find out how we can plow up some new ground in our life and make way for some great fruit in the future.
#1. Different situations require different approaches.
For instance the soil at my house is hard as a rock when dry and sticky & slimy as clay when wet. To adequately plow it, you really need a large piece of equipment. A hoe will require a long time to plow that ground, yet I understand that not all soil is that hard to plow.
Maybe your life is filled with tragedy and deep hurts. Some things you try to do in life will require some hard ground work. Keep on trying: just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not worth it. Here is a link to a resource for those deep hurts. Invisible Hurts
#2. Give yourself grace.
Don’t let one skipped work-out or diet cheat keep you from going on. Or one day doing your devotion makes you feel like a failure. Maybe you need to be more flexible and change your time and/or intensity of your work-out or devotions.
In other words, find a way to make it happen. Maybe your ambition is to read 5 chapters of your Bible and pray for an half hour everyday. While that is commendable, maybe you should break it into chunks. Do 15 or 30 minutes in the morning, then do the rest in 15-minute increments throughout the day. Why feel like a failure? Are you doing more than before? Let’s look for improvement, not perfection.
I am not a writer and I know this post will need many corrections by my grammar-minded daughter before you see it. I have put off writing this post as well as other things because I am afraid of failure. The fear of not being good enough is valid. But if we are able to help each other with our feeble attempts of communication, shouldn’t we think it worthy to learn and develop ourselves?
“Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.”
1 Corinthians 9:10 KJV
https://www.bible.com/1/1co.9.10.kjv
Love,
Amanda
The Rasbeary Patch 