New Year Resolutions

Posted : 4 Jan, 2011 05:05 PM

Folks call it New Year Resolutions. This term defines a desire to do better this year over last year. It is a resolve to change behavior, eating habits, personal piety, or any number of areas of life that are unsatisfactory. The idea is noble but sad to say the implementation has a high failure rate. A better plan for changing things in your life is rededication. This allows the effort to be transferred from a human will-power to God power at work in you. Keep in mind God believes in new things. We have a New Testament that's far better than the old. We have a new covenant that makes obsolete the rituals and sacrifices of the old. We speak with new tongues that were not available in the old. We look for a New Jerusalem, a new heaven, and a new earth that causes the former to pale in comparison. We walk in newness of life. You could not aim for a higher goal in 2011 than a closer walk with God. To enjoy His fellowship, pray with greater fervor, love more pure, and walk in greater victory supersedes material things. So many resolutions end in disappointment; a renewed dedication to God is never regretted.



"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." (Psalms 1:1-3)

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