It’s a New Year, the time for making resolutions that we never intend to keep! That’s not quite true, of course. It’s good for us to work toward goals and dreams for the future, but let’s face it – it’s hard to keep our resolutions; if we’d all lost all the weight that’d we’d committed to every New Year, none of us would even exist anymore!
The most common New Year’s resolutions are about physical fitness, organization, and money management. Those are all fine, but what if we made 2013 about taking steps in a new direction spiritually? What if your goal in 2013 were to encounter Jesus face-to-face?
In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when you visit the prisoner, you are in fact visiting Him. Prison Fellowship wants to help you meet God as you minister to inmates and their families in 2013.
I’m not necessarily talking about something huge. I’m talking about taking a few minutes of your time to go worship by serving the “least of these.” Just go to www.prisonfellowship.org/get-involved to learn how you can help.
If God is calling you into a deeper level of engagement with Prison Fellowship this year, let the Spirit lead you into the process of volunteering. Learn about the local opportunities. Go through some of our training. Let it be an act of worship – not necessarily an act of doing something, but being someone significant in someone else’s life. My bet is, you’ll experience worship beyond anything you’ve ever experienced. You’ll have the same experience I’ve had. By volunteering, you don’t just go spend a few hours – you’ll be forever changed through your encounter with Jesus!
