Sinclair Ferguson

You're always visiting.

You're always counseling.

I've never seen you do just one thing.

You know, I think Paul would have smiled back to his young friend Timothy and said, I know what you mean, Timothy.

No one knows better than you what I do and how busy I am.

But you need to understand one thing.

You need to understand I'm not busy doing many different things.

I'm busy doing one thing in many different ways.

And all of them are about getting to know the Lord Jesus Christ better, to share His life, and to become like Him.

That's the heart.

In some ways, it's the secret of everything I do, every waking hour, every different activity.

They're all simply different ways of doing this one thing.

When I was a small boy in Scotland, each New Year's Eve, Hogmanay, as we called it, my parents would tell me to go into my room and write out 10 New Year's resolutions for the year to come.

I laugh now looking back when I remember how hard I thought it was to find 10 ways in which I needed to improve.

I could write them out much more easily today, I suspect.

But, you know, if you are a Christian, you really need only one new year resolution.

And Paul's will be a great help to you, especially if you're a younger Christian or a younger person, a teenager or perhaps a student.

Few things can be more helpful to you than to understand that this is the way to both simplify and integrate your life.

This is what will give you direction.

This is what will help you answer the great question, what am I really for?