I am a big fan of J.C. Ryle. I have read his classic work title Holiness and I’m nearly finished with Practical Religion. Here are some goals I want to make in my life. Many thanks to Bishop Ryle for putting them in a very doable list.

• “Walk more closely with God, get nearer to Christ and seek to exchange hope for assurance.”
• “Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year.”
• “Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets me.”
• “Press towards the mark more earnestly.”
• “Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year I live.”
• “Pray more.”
• “Read more.”
• “Mortify self more.”
• “Love the brethren more.”

“Oh that I may endeavor so to grow in grace every year, that my last things may be far more than my first, and the end of my Christian course far better than the beginning.” J.C. Ryle