What is in your life that is holding you back from greater fruitfulness for God’s kingdom? What habit or doubt or attitude or fear is limiting your effectiveness for God? What is keeping your Christian maturity in the same place instead of allowing you to move forward to a greater level? Whatever it is, it must die.
You ought to hate anything in your life that is keeping you from being more like Christ. But in actual fact, we tend to excuse and hold on to those issues. We can become so protective of our life that we cling to the very things that are keeping us in bondage. We would be happy to do more for God, or to take on additional responsibilities, but dying is wholly unappealing.
As you draw near to the end of the year, take an inventory of your life. Are there habits, practices, attitudes that need to be cast aside before you enter the new year? Don’t carry into the next year the same baggage you had in the previous one. Let God weed out any encumbrance in your life that is holding you back. It may well be that this new year is your greatest year of spiritual advance you have ever experienced.