Living for God

With 2017 coming to end, it's a common practice to review what you accomplished during the year.  Often times we start the year with certain goals and resolutions that soon become a disinterest to us. We can become idle and lazy when it comes to goals and resolutions that are difficult to accomplish and do not give us instant satisfaction. Once we give up altogether on the resolution, we look back over the year frustrated that we did not accomplish what we set out to do in the beginning of the year.  We tend to have a way of thinking that once the current year ends, and the new year begins we can pick right back up on accomplishing the resolution, as if a new year automatically means a new us. The same idleness can be said for our relationship with God. We become casual in our relationship with God throughout the year. We read our Bibles with no desire for God and no intention on building a real relationship with Him. We go to church out of habit, with no praise in our hearts, mak