My Prayer for the New Year

I’ve been seeing so many posts about New Year’s Resolutions and New Year’s Goals for the last week, and I always find them interesting.Despite having some success reaching past goals (I did in fact write a book one year…), I haven’t written out yearly goals last year or this year. In the last few months of 2017, I wrote out a handful of life goals. Goals that I would never accomplish in one year, but rather, would take years to see develop in my life.I was looking over that list in the last few weeks of 2018 and really felt like I had only been working toward one or two of those goals throughout the year.I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I could change that in 2019, and honestly, it just stressed me out. I kept feeling like there was too much that I needed to change. Too many options. Too many possibilities. Too many ways for me to fail.Then, I read this verse and had a thought.My thought was maybe instead of focusing on goals and resolutions this year, I should focus on spending time in the Word and letting it guide me. Then, the New Year becomes less about what I want and more about who God wants me to be.My prayer for 2019 is that God’s Word and God’s direction will be the focus of my heart.