:To Conquer

Overcome.

I spent some time this week writing a blog post for the new year. It was all about what a great year 2014 was and how awesome 2015 is going to be. I'm not sure if I was trying to convince you, or myself.

However I sat down to finish it on New Years Eve and it just seemed to have gone stale. I had no words. I thought I might have just been rusty from not writing much lately. After a little time the post seemed to take off and I got it all done and ready to hit publish on New Years Day. Unfortunately for you, I suppose, you will never see that post.

 "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world". 1John 4:4

After finishing writing I settled in with some Netflix and enjoyed the rest of my NYE. Around 11:00 I decided I could head to bed. I was going to listen to music and I was sure I'd make it until midnight with my tunes and some social media surfing. That's when it hit me, when the music started, the post wasn't stale because I hadn't written in a long time, it was stale because I wasn't listening. I was trying to write the post I wanted to write.

I definitely made it to the new year. Back up to write a new post!

"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world". John 16:33

The post I was trying to write was about being intentional in 2015. I laid there wondering, listing to the lyrics of  "How Can it Be" by Lauren  Daigle. How could I be intentional? What was I going to be intentional about? Working out? Eating better? Praying? Reading my Bible? Loving others? 

Great. How? Why? Where? When?

Overcome.

The word just kept repeating. How could I be intentional about anything when I let so much hold me back? 2015 will be a year of overcoming. Overcoming will lead to more intentional living. Intentional living means not letting life pass you by, seizing each moment. I'm not sure anymore the how or the what or the why  of this than I was of being intentional. All I know is this word has been stuck with me all week. Every time I open my Bible. Every time I get still with God. I hear overcome. So here we go, ready to overcome!

" Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21

I am guilty

Ashamed of what I've done, what I've become

These hands are dirty

I dare not lift them up to the Holy one

Chorus

You plead my cause

You right my wrongs

You break my chains

You overcome

You gave Your life

To give me mine

You say that I am free

How can it be

How can it be

I've been hiding

Afraid I've let you down, inside I doubt

That You could love me

But in Your eyes there's only grace now

Bridge

Though I fall, You can make me new

From this death I will rise with You

Oh the grace reaching out for me

How can it be

How can it be

" What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?" Romans 8:31