Mission for 2015

This year so far has surprised me. Only thirteen days in and I have learned so much about myself and so much more about who God is. This year Matthew and I are in an engaged/newly wed discipleship group (which is an answered prayer in itself) and we are reading through the bible in a year plus a few books (including the master plan of evangelism). The plan we are using to read through the bible is to read some old testament, some new testament, a psalm, and proverbs every day. It is so cool to flip between stages in the bible and see God constant love and consistency with his promises through scripture...and we're only thirteen days in! I am SO excited to learn what God is going to teach me. 

I have also learned a lot about myself. I am so quick to speak. So quick to get angry. So quick to judge before loving. Which is exactly opposite what God calls me to do! I have become so aware of my own pride and self-centeredness. All this to say, this year, as I said before, my word is serve. I want to make it my mission to serve everyone around me. Everyone I possibly can! Especially with my wedding coming up this year, I want to be serving the people we have hired, serving my family, serving the guests. And then when we are officially man and wife, I want to serve my husband fully and selflessly. Ultimately, through serving people, I want to serve God. This life is short. It's not about me. And I don't want to waste it on myself.

Something I have noticed about our society is that it all proclaims "me! me! me!" Watch the commercials...they are always focused on looking out for "#1". Everything is based around self-absorption which is exactly the opposite of what Jesus preached. That means the devil is winning the hearts of millions of people by getting them to serve themselves daily and ignore Jesus's teaching. I fall victim to those commercials and ads. I fall victim to the world. But keeping Jesus and others first in the mindset of serving and praying for others will break the chain of selfishness. 

A couple of verses I am focusing on this year are:

 Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

and

Romans 12:1-2

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

This is my heart and mission for this year. To serve others and not myself. 

Do you have a word for 2015? What is your mission for 2015?

-Lacey