What are your goals for 2011? It is to lose weight? To run a marathon? To climb Mt. Everest or skydive?

My goal for 2011 might sound cheesy and super-spiritual, but it’s my own goal. You can take it or leave it if you want, but this is what I want more than anything in 2011: To be more like Jesus.

I want to be a whole lot less selfish and a whole lot more giving. If Jesus gave absolutely everything for me, what in the world do I have that’s worth keeping? I can’t think of anything.

I want to be a lot less neurotic and a whole lot more trusting. Jesus fully and completely relied on his Father and did nothing apart from Him. His resulting perfect peace was evident throughout His entire life, even in the midst of storms and trials and death.

I want to be less judgmental and a whole lot more giving of grace. Jesus’ only harsh words were for those who were religious but not loving. I see how desparately wicked I am apart from Christ, so how can I ever give up on anyone else or stop believing the best for them?

I want to be less in auto-pilot mode, and more alive. I don’t want to spend my whole life waiting for the next big event, and missing the small miracles right in front of me. I want to be in the moment of every moment and live my life “with eyes wide open and hands toward heaven”, as one of my favorite songs by The Vespers puts it.

I want to be less, so that Jesus can be more. I don’t want people to look at me and say how great I am or how admirable a life I’m living. I want them to see my life and that my life would ignite a yearning inside them to know and love the Jesus they see in me.

That’s my goal for 2011. To be like Jesus. Oh, and maybe to meet the girl I will marry. Just bein’ honest. Those are my goals. What are yours?