Habits are essential to progress.

God gives you 1) the desire but 2) also the power to change.

However, I need to obey by applying what God wants to do so that I can change.

There is hard work to do if we want to see transformation – but the goal is that we would increasingly “conform to the image of the Son” (see Rom. 8:29 and Gal. 4:1:19).

There are many goals we have set for ourselves that we have not attained, but like a runner in a race, it’s very hard to run forward when you’re facing backwards.

Likewise, looking at the year ahead, its hard to lean in fully to what is before when our eyes are on what is behind us.