The Irresoluteness of Resolutions

I am always irresolute when it comes to New Year’s Resolutions.  I would like to keep the ones I make. I want to improve in many areas of my life, but the very second I make a resolution, it’s doomed to failure. I become a slave to trying to keep something I should never have promised myself to do in the first place, and suddenly all my good intentions become a burden.  Failure, again. Someone said the other other day, "what compromises most of the resolutions a person makes?"  Humm.. Exercise more?  Eat healthier?  Drink less stuff we shouldn’t be drinking in the first place? Be kinder?  Be wiser?  Make fewer judgments about people?  Save money?  The list goes on, but nearly everything on these lists is something a person should already be doing in the first place! If we obeyed His word, would we not do most of the things on our list already?  Maybe that’s why we fail before we begin.  New Year’s resolutions remind us we fall short, and the distance to making that up seems too far away to reach, so we quit. 
So this New Year’s Eve as I sit around the campfire with family and friends, I want to be thankful. Thankful for all that God has given me this year: my husband, children, grandchildren, friends, reasonably good health, a good church home, the Word of God, Jesus saving me and providing for me every day of my life, for giving me faith and His Grace to carry me through, and the list will go on.

In my morning Bible reading I read this from I Peter1:22-23 "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying he truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”  Love, the very essence of Christ; I can love the way Christ loves, as God gives me strength. Not a resolution, to be left irresolute, but a prayer to be uttered daily.

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