December 27

We are at the threshold of a new year. It holds much promise for us. At its onset, we will resolve to rectify all that we’ve done wrong in the past and to resolutely pursue the worthy goals that we aspire to achieve in the future. We consider ourselves to have a new beginning before us.

We must sort through the closet of our minds and determine the value of what we have stored there. What is hanging on the shelves of our thoughts that is worth the space it’s occupying? What is cluttering the corners of our minds that should have been discarded long ago?

The Word tells us, “Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are right…think on these things” Philippians 4:8, and we would do well to clear out the thoughts that degrade us or depress us or diminish our hope. We must focus on the lofty things that the Lord would have us to do and to be.

Philippians 3:13,14 tells us that we must, “…forget what lies behind and press forward into the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” To press forward is to continue to do the things that He’s called us to do, to think what He’s called us to think—and to discard our clutter of ungodliness in all its forms.