The end of year is a place to look back and forward.
Back remembers and regrets. Forward hopes and it can be fearful.

Your future is impacted by two matters. God’s purposes for your life. And your love of those purposes.

Loving whatever God has in store frees us from anxiety and fear. Trusting the outcome of 2013 is in God’s control liberates from disappointment and the crushing sense of regret.

Or we could believe the fiction that we are in control and end up in disappointment and confusion at the end of 2013.

Loving — deeply, seriously, completely loving — God’s purposes and making decisions based on God’s control and the wisdom of his will, is an incredible way to live.

Discovering God’s purposes and will always requires a knowledge of God’s Word, and a growing experience of living with Christ day in and day out. Prayer; submission to his will; confession and being forgiven; obeying God by faith; and knowing what pleases God — are all steps toward living one decision at a time, seeking the will and purposes of God. At the end of the year we could recount perhaps thousands of choices that have given us knowledge of God’s will and resulted in the desire within us to do it.

2013 could be a year of complete trust; and it could end with absolutely no regrets.