3 Ways to Have a Great 2014!

1. Physical Fitness

There are many that will pay for a gym membership in 2014. Many will go a few times and never return. Gyms are great and the price may help you stick with it. However, you can be active anywhere. My wife likes going for a walk after dinner. Keeping up with 3 little kids will keep you active. I pull them around town in a bicycle cart. Yes, that's our cart with the big orange flags.

When we think of physical fitness, we often think of exercise only. We also need proper sleep and nutritious food.  Sleep is very important. It is something that we cannot do without. We are the created and we need proper sleep, unlike our Creator, who never slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4). We live in a culture that  makes it easy to eat unhealthy. Do we know what's in our food or do we just eat it in ignorance or apathy? 

2. Spiritual Fitness

Like physical fitness, spiritual fitness is a must. What would you like to accomplish this year that you've been thinking about doing for years? Read through the Bible? Pray more effectively? Cultivate in your family a burning hunger for God? Well, what are you waiting for? Seriously. William Carey said we should, "Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God." Ephesians 2:8-9 reads, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." But we must not stop there. Paul then stated, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

Paul instructed Timothy that exercise is good but godliness is more profitable (1 Tim. 4:7).

3. The Gospel

How many people did you share the Gospel with in 2013? I challenge you to share the Gospel at least once a month. That's only 12 times! It's been said, Oh the grace of God that I've heard the Gospel so many times when others have never heard it once!

Here's the kicker... 

We need to preach the Gospel to ourselves. What? Yes. We need to remind ourselves of our forgiven, adopted spiritual state. We need to remember our sin before the holy God of everything. We must also remember that we cannot save ourselves (Ephesians 2:8-10). Jesus came to Earth to seek and save the lost. Christian, we were the lost. We are now eternally forgiven and have been adopted into the family of God. This will never change! And when we are immersed in self-pity, preach the Gospel from God's word, and when necessary, preach it to yourself!

We pray you have a blessed 2014! May we all share the Gospel more in 2014 than we did in 2013.I would love to hear from you. Leave a comment below!

Respectfully, 
George Fuller

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