Does it really matter looking back.....

It's the new year, and by now you should all be settled in, and with that, let's close the chapter on 2011. You see, a lot of us tend to start of the year with excitement and expectation of what we set out to do and what our plans are for the year, but I heard a joke a long time ago and it said, " if you ever want to make or hear God laugh, then tell him your plans." The reason being is because more often then not, our plan for our self fail. So we don't meet our goals, or things don't go as we would have hoped, then we start becoming impatient and pretty soon that excitement we stated off with becomes anxiety. So the real question for this year is how do we avoid the excitement into anxiety pit fall. Incomes Jesus with the answer, which is a very simple one, 'Will this matter in a year from now to God the Father?' You see because all too often we get so involved in things that we look at life through a microscope. Amplifying manifold, an invisible speck becomes an insurmountable mountain. Put down the microscope and imagine yourself a year from now looking back at today: 'Does this really matter to God the Father in getting accomplished his agenda for this year?' So when you set out this time to make your goals for the year, ask your self do those really matter to the Father, are they on his agenda?