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Sarah Byrd

  2012.... Whether or not you were ready, it's here.  I looked around and did some people watching per se' as I listened to the resolutions many were making. Resolving to change or tweak areas of our lives has gone hand in hand with the start of a new year for so long, I have no idea when it started. But I got to thinking about how many people make detailed long lists of things they want to add or subtract from their lives and some verses came to mind....

..."If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.

   Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.

   For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

   [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. James 1:5-8 (AMP)

As I pondered over the correlation between this and New Year's resolutions, I thought about K.I.S.S.  = Keep It Simple Stupid.

  How many times do we complicate things and bring greater stress on ourselves by adding to and trying to do MORE than God has asked of us? He knows our weaknesses. How many times does God's Word tell is to keep it simple and not pollute our mind with things that will make us double minded and unstable, yet we allow the world and people that aren't fruit producers to sow into our hearts and divide our thinking?

  My Challenge to you is one I gave myself: Keep It Simple. If the Bible says God will do it, trust Him. Seek His word for answers. If it doesn't line up with The Word, don't believe it or follow it. If it does, do it! Even if it is something that seems hard, He will give us strength to do whatever we are called to do. I really believe that is one of many reasons God placed my wonderful Boyfriend in my life; to challenge me to work on a few things like this. Because when it comes to patience and letting something be, well I guess I am more like a gnat with ADD!

  Well that's all for now. I'm not going to blow my own challenge by adding to this when I've already said enough, lol. Take care of yourselves and I look forward to seeing you all down the road!

With love and blessings to you,

~Sarah

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