Renewing my Mind in 2009

Okay so i know that this post is 15 days late, but recouping from the holidays took a little longer for us than expected.

I am soo excited to let you all in on why & how I am "Renewing my Mind in 2009".

I have been a Christian from a very early age, in fact, I was sent to a private Christian school K-4th grade before we moved towns and I started attending a public school. Needless to say, I grew up in the church. My family would go every Sunday, but there after I entered JR. High, we as a family rarely made it to church. Once I got into HS, I became involved in the youth group and youth choir and began to make friends, so I bummed rides from friends to church until I could drive myself.

However, not having any parental examples of discipline when it came to your relationship with Christ, I would make it to youth every now and then. I would read my bible only at church and never saw the benefit of reading it at home. I didn't understand what devotionals were and didn't understand the concept of a quiet time. This mindset stayed with me thru most of college. Then my eyes were opened to the importance of Scripture and spending time with the Lord through a Beth Moore bible study. The scriptures became alive and real to me and seeing her face with such joy and seeing her love for Christ and her love for the Word of God, I wanted that!! I wanted what she had!! I wanted Christ to be real to me, to guide and direct my life. I wanted to be in love with Christ. I wanted scripture to be something that I could use in my daily life, as it was suppose to be. BUT... lack of discipline reared it's ugly head OVER and OVER again. I would get on a roll of having time with the Lord and then life would get in the way. This has been the case for YEARS now. AND - I am fed up with it!! I have been for some time now, but just didn't know how to get back on track with things. How to push life BACK and Put Christ First in my mind and in my daily life.

Well, the answer on how, came to me through Beth Moore on her Living Proof Ministries blog page. She invited her readers, to join her in Scripture Memorization (and Meditation) for the entire year of 2009. To focus on this new year to be a Jesus-Year. To Renew our Minds for Christ by putting scripture in our head and allowing us to focus on Him daily.
The goal: to committing to memorize and meditate on 2 scriptures a month. One verse the 1st-14th and Second verse the 15th-30th each month. By the end of 2009 we will have 24 verses memorized.

This is something that I've needed to do for a while now. Something that made sense and was a way to jump into Scripture without it being overwhelming to me. And something that helped me have people to whom I can help keep me accountable. I now have 3000 other ladies AND Beth Moore who I can do this with and go to for encouragement. I AM SOO EXCITED!!! :D

So my New Years Resolution, is to have a BRAINWASH, a "Renewal of my Mind in 2009", to have a Jesus-Year by putting Christ as the focus in my life, beginning with my mind. WOO!!! I am excited. I would love it if you'd join me.

If you are interested in joining me, Beth and 3000 other Siesta's in this Scripture Memorization challenge, just check out the LPM blog post by clicking HERE!
And let me know too by leaving a comment!

I pray this is a JESUS-YEAR for you too!