Getting Back To The Basics

Greetings and Blessings!!

Hope you all are doing well. I also hope that everyone had a great weekend! Let's thank God for allowing us to enter into another week. Let's thank God for this week that will be filled with goodness and blessings!! I wanted to share with you in how important it is for us to get back to the basics for this New Year. In the world we live in today, technology has advanced and will continue to advance at a rapid rate to simplify our lives and allow us to have everything at our fingertips. By being so caught up in the worldly tasks, we often lose time in spending time with God, spending time with family/friends, and getting to do things that we enjoy to do. It is so important within this New Year, that we really maintain our focus on setting out the goals that we want to achieve/accomplish this year.  

When it comes to getting back to the basics it strengthens our foundation. It is important to have a solid and strong foundation because if one doesn't it won't be able to withstand what is to come. Whatever happen or didn't happen last year, you can't take into this New Year! Last year was only preparation for this year! You can't move forward and onward with the mentality of last year, you have to shift your mindset that this year will be better than 2014. 

If we are really serious about having a relationship with God, we have to really seek and pursue him! If we have the time to seek and pursue other things then we surely have the time to genuinely seek God and be in his presence. God is always there, he didn't move or vanished to someplace else, he's there in the midst of EVERYTHING. You moved or you did have a relationship with him until you got what you wanted and then you checked out! As I stated in a previous post, we are not excluded from going through difficult times in our lives. We can't just give God the praise when things are going our way. We will have difficult times and have seasons where it feels as though our backs are up against a wall and there's no way out. 

But this is where our foundation, our faith, our trust in him comes in. This is what getting back to the basics is all about. Setting side alone/quiet time with God to be in his presence. We can't always be on our phones, on social media, busy with work, doing tasks at home. We have to get away from all the NOISE and have one-on-one time with him. The time is now for us to be about our business not only in our personal lives but especially in our spiritual lives. 

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" Romans 12:2 

Be Blessed

Christina