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Facing The New Year – New Year’s Eve

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."
Luke 5:4

After fishing all night with not even a mackerel to show for it, Jesus tells His disciples, "Launch out into the deep." Why? Because when you want what you don’t have, you’ve got to risk going where you haven’t been yet! A visit to The World Trade Centre would help set your priorities in order this year. Many who survived the attacks changed careers immediately afterwards. Initially they’d taken the job for a lucrative pay check. But when the world’s tallest buildings fell, some of the world’s best-paid workers realized how fickle it all can be. So they went home, wept, hugged their families, re-evaluated their lives and realized that you can have half as much, yet be ten times better off in every way. Sad, isn’t it, that it takes tragedy to get us there? Know what’s even sadder? To be given chance after chance and still not ‘get it’. Don’t wait until the bottom falls out before you count the cost of what you’re living for. The Bible says, "make every minute count, find out what the Lord wants you to do" (Ephesians 5:16-17). Did you get that? Make sure that what you want is what God wants for you. Once stretched by a God-given vision, you never snap back into your original shape again. As you face another year, stop and take stock; compare the price tag on God’s will for your life against what you’re already spending; then compare the rewards of both. Once you see beyond where you are - you’ll never look back.