To A Great 2010!

Posted by Buck Jacobs on Jan 1st, 2010 | no comments home title

Happy New Year! On this first day of 2010 I am looking forward to the New Year 2010 with genuine excitement and expectation! At 72 I feel great and have already accomplished more in my life than I ever imagined because of God’s grace manifest. I have nothing left to prove and no pressure to do anything but I am anxious to get going in 2010! I am a blessed man and extremely grateful for the life I have and have lived. My only remaining goal is to finish my race strong and run through the tape!

It wasn’t always this way for me. I have known the emptiness that comes from following the world’s system of hedonistic materialism. I have set meaningless goals and accomplished them over and again without ever gaining lasting satisfaction or peace through the processs At 30 I was living in a villa north of Rome, Italy having surpassed every financial goal that I had ever had, yet I was empty and unfufilled. I knew there had to be more but didn’t know what it was.

How about you? What do you see looking out at the coming year? What are you hoping for? What needs to change in 2010 to make it a better year for you than 2009? More stuff? A raise? A romance?

This will be just a short post but I want to do two things. First, to remind you that, if nothing changes nothing changes, and if in your heart you aren’t where you want to be at the start of this New Year, and not excited about what you see looking back, something has to change or 2010 will be a reflection of 2009. I’m not talking about the normal New Year’s resolutions type stuff. We both know that 99% of them don’t live to see February. I’m talking about the deep inner changes that produce a truly better life, not just a more prosperous life or a healthier life. Are you happy with who you are and where you are heading? I pray that you are but if not, what has to change?

I’ve learned the hard way that happiness exists on the inside and has little to do with what’s outside of us. When we depend on what’s outside for our happiness it is always threatened, we can always lose it. If it’s an inner thing no one can steal it or take it f rom us. If our happiness depends on another person it is never secure. (unless of course that person is Jesus Christ who never changes!) Human people always change and happiness that depends on human relationships is always vulnerable.

For me it was a change from the inside out that was the start. I gave my heart and life to Jesus in 1973 and told Him that if He would forgive my sin and wanted to lead me in His way that I would give it up to Him and do whatever He wanted with the rest of it. That was 36 years ago and the very best deal I ever made! If you have never done the deal with Jesus there couldn’t be a better way to start the New Year.

But even if you have done the deal and know Him you may need to make some changes to know Him better. If so you know it and you also know what I’m talking about. He’ll help you change what needs to change, just ask Him.

The great news for 2010 is that He is real, He loves you, and He is calling to all who will listen. If life going forward doesn’t look as exciting to you as it does to me what you need is more of Jesus and less of the world. That fits no matter where we are. young or old, new Christian, old saint, or lost sinner. Jesus is the key to life abundant now and forever. Trust Him more in 2010 and it will be a great year!