At the beginning of the year as Tanya and I sat down to write out our goals for the year we also made a decision to challenge ourselves this year to be more intentional about the ways we conduct the affairs or everyday life. We want to be more intentional about how we handle our money, our checkbook register is a measure of what we treasure in life after all.
We also want to be more intentional about how we spend out time, time is a limited commodity and we frequently waste much of it... We want to be more intentional in our relationships, are we good parents, good children to our parents, good neighbors, etc... or how about good Christians?
We also want to be more intentional about intentional about studying the scriptures, and decided to embark on studying some the areas of scriptures that we often avoid, either for their difficulty or our lack of interest. It is our hope that maybe our resistance to these areas might be out of rebellion and that the Holy Spirit may speak to our hearts through them and bring about transformation.
Speaking for myself, I know that I can be stubborn, i resist change and am usually more that willing and happy to cling to more comfortable spiritual disciplines that require little from me...but alas I have grown tired of living this way, I have a thirst for adventure! Adventure that is beyond the comforts of the recliner and remote control (I mean this both literally and metaphorically).
So, what are we going to do? Well for starters, we are going to tame our finances. We are reconnecting to tried and tested methodology. We are facilitating Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University (FPU) at our church this will motivate us to get our financial house in order as well as provide the necessary accountability.
Secondly, Tanya and I have embarked on a deep study of the book of Ezekiel. Neither of us has really given this book much attention and felt this might be a good book for deeper study. We are hoping that the Holy Spirit will illuminate this difficult to read and understand book and bring deeper understanding and transformation into our spiritual lives. To aid us in this endeavor we have procured a good commentary to aid us in our study.
It is my hope that in the coming weeks or months that some of my posts will reflect the impact that these two areas of focus are having...
