When you look at the past months in retrospect, can you convincingly say you did everything God told you to do at the beginning of the year? Whatever your answer might be, I want you to know that God still loves you and it’s His earnest desire that you do better this year than you did last year. I’m sure He has already started showing you the changes He wants you to make and the things He wants you to do in order to reach the place of your dreams by the end of the year. Therefore you must be prepared to follow through with the decisions you make because the adversary seeks to stop you from reaching the place of your dreams.
The major problem with many people is inconsistency. They easily change with the tides. It’s a good thing to have good plans, it’s great to make Word-based decisions but it’s another thing to follow them through. When you cannot follow through with the right decisions, you’re as unwise as those who didn’t even make any decisions at all. You don’t get the results just because you made decisions, the results come when you’ve followed through with them.
The Lord Jesus said, “...that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” (Luke 12:47-48). This is why people feel condemned for not doing what they already know to do, but the guy who doesn’t know anything won’t feel condemned at all.
Make a quality decision to follow through on everything God has told you. Resist the devil with your actions and he’ll flee from you. The Word never changes; it’ll produce the result of what it says. Live a consistent life in the Word of God because that’s the way to remain forever victorious in Christ.
