We’re three days into the new year now and I have a question for you? Are you spending time alone with the Lord before you start your day!

Remember my challenge. If you’ll spend time alone with the Lord reading His Word you’ll be a different person by the year 2012!

A devoted child of God never wants to get away from the Word of God. Every child wants to hear the voice of his father, especially if it is the voice of comfort or a voice of correction.

The child who isn’t interested in the Word of God or doesn’t stay near it is going to get into some real trouble! James 2:21 says, “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls!

When I was a boy I’d sometimes say this prayer, “God is great, God is good, and we thank Him for our food, Amen!”

God is great and He is good, The Bible says in James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Listen, if you have good gift, it came from Him. We need to count our blessings today! The sunshine, the rain, the cloudy day, the bright day, the green grass, the leaves that fall, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

God gives good gifts for He is good! We just don’t understand how good He is! Let’s thank God for His goodness starting today on January 2, 2011!

New Year Resolutions are made all the time and never kept! I go to the YMCA and every year about this time that place is packed. People will join the Y determined to lose all that weight they’ve gained over the past year or years.

The gym will be packed the end of December, January, and February. After that, it’s over with. People mean well but they don’t stick to their resolution. My resolution this year is to get closer to the Lord. The only way I can do that is to spend time alone with Him daily!

Physical exercise is good but spending time alone with the Lord is much better. Spending time alone with the Lord will get you in shape spiritually which will help you stick to getting into shape physically!

I want to lay out a challenge to you. Everyday in 2011 get up and spend time alone with the Lord reading His Word. Don’t miss, don’t let anything come in the way of you doing so. I promise you, by the year 2012 you’ll be a different person spiritually and physically! The challenge has been made, let’s get it on!