It’s a new year. Some may call it a fresh start. Many will plan to start diets, to workout or to better their families and their lives for this new year ahead. Though with all the resolutions that are out there, very few have to do with deepening their walk with God. Though dieting for health purposes, working out, and trying to better our families and lives are good things, were missing the most important. Our walk with God. For when we walk with Him, everything else is better and falls into place. If we really want to better ourselves, we need to start with not just our bodies, but especially our souls. If we want to better our loved one’s life, we need God and we need to help guide them on their walk with God. We chase many goals, but are we seeking our faith first? I too can be caught up in life and be distracted from God who matters most. Though if I want a good year, a good month, a good day, a good hour, then we have to walk with God. Nothing will fulfill our year better, than walking with Him. Friend, as we set our new years goals, may we put spending more time with God and deepening our relationship with Him as number one. For new years is a reminder that we had been given another year of life. With this new one ahead may we live it right, by living it purposeful with God first.

Erin Fitts-Brower

God first

Happy New Year friend!

Psalm 90:12 NIV

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

1 Timothy 6:12 NIV

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 NIV

 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?