Happy New Year! It’s been a while, and I need to post more, but this will be a short post to let you know I’m still alive :)

Now is a great time to reflect on the past and look toward the future. I was thinking the other day about a song “I have decided to follow Jesus… no turning back…”.

What does it look like to decide to follow Jesus? We look for the ways we can emulate Christ’s desire to help those without a voice, those who are oppressed, the foreigner, the outcast, and the marginalized.

If you’ve decided to follow Jesus, then relate to those around you in the way Jesus related to those around Him. Speak truth to power and lift up (instead of condemning) those deemed to be “lesser” in some way.

This is how you “offer a cup of cold water” to Jesus and promote God’s kingdom.