How many things have you read about setting goals, achieving your goals, reaching your goals, confessing your goals, and the list just goes on and on?
Then we tend to swing back the other way and decide to not set any goals, rather than drown under the weight of expectation that we have created for ourselves. The only thing is though, without a goal, without a clear objective you can’t be sure that you are actually making progress, moving forward, making the most out of the year before you.
Proverbs 16:9 needs to be read in conjunction with Proverbs 16:3. We make our plans, and then we commit them to the Lord that is our part; God then directs and determines the best course of action that is His part. If you haven’t done your part how can you expect God to bless your ‘nothing’?
So this year, maybe look at having fewer goals but just make sure they are S.M.A.R.T – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time sensitive – and then be sure to submit them to the Lord.
Simplicity of focus brings clarity of purpose.
