Are You Running Your Race?

I love New Years Day because I have a day off to pray, set some goals and get a vision. (Dreaming is one of my favorite things to do.) It is really important to set goals for the new year, but they can't just be any kind of goals. So, my question to you is: Are you running "your" race?

"...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before us." Hebrews 12:1

You have a particular race that God has set before you to run. It has to do with the divine destiny God has planned for you to fufill. You are not to run someone else's race, for God has a specific race for each of us. (Sometimes it is really easy to look at what somebody else is doing and think we should be running the same race.) It's good to ask friends for counsel, however our "vision" comes directly from God.

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11-13

As you set goals for the New Year, take time to pray and ask God about His plans for your life. I find that whenever God asks me to do something new, it is almost always something I don't think I can do. His plans are always better than our own! He always has bigger plans for you than you do for yourself!