The New Year is a wonderful time to take inventory of many things in our life especially our walk with the Lord. We are afforded the opportunity to see how we grown closer to Jesus or how we have drifted farther from Him. It is a time when we make resolutions with the best of intentions in keeping those resolutions only to see us fall off of the wagon by the middle of January.
Keeping resolutions is hard if we try to keep them on our own. If you have someone in your life who will help to maintain your diet or who will accompany you to the gym you are more likely to follow through with your resolution. Accountability is so important when it comes to keeping our resolutions or our commitments. The same is true as it relates to our walk with the Lord. If there are people in our lives who help us on our journey we are more inclined to stay the course and persevere regardless of what the devil throws at us. We need accountability to help us in our study and meditation of God’s Word which is still the best way in which God speaks because it is His very word to us.
I am inviting you into an accountability relationship as we would seek to gain a more disciplined approach to the Word of God. I have decided to follow a reading plan from bible.com entitled “Bible in One Year 2020”. It is written by Nicky Gumbel and provides Scripture reading for each day of the year with the end goal of reading through the entire Bible by the end of the year. I encourage you to look at this plan and consider starting it and perhaps we can hold each other accountable for how we are doing in following through with our readings.
In the meantime, I do pray for the Lord to bless you and keep you in the year 2020 and that you will experience His hand of blessing and provision throughout the year. God bless you.