Well, it’s the beginning of a new decade. The 2020’s have begun. Time to make all your New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions that will probably be broken before you know it. What is a ‘resolution’ anyway? “It is a “firm decision to do something. A course of action determined or decided on. It is a state or quality of being resolute … to have firm determination.”[1]
Now that we know what a resolution is, we must decide what area of our life requires a course of action that initiates change in our behavior. It has everything to do with what is most important to us as individuals. This decision doesn’t necessarily have to involve someone else although it can. The change has to come from within. It has to come from the heart. It has to be sincere and honest. We must truly want the change to take place or it won’t. We don’t get an ‘E’ for effort on this. In past years my resolution has been to “see others as God sees them”. Another time it was “help me be more like Christ in my daily life”. I’ve had others but those were the two biggies. To not see others as God sees them leaves you prone to judging others by their appearance, by where they are from or how they dress. We have no right to judge ANYONE for ANY REASON. Christ is the judge, not us. Being more like Christ means people will begin to see Christ in you as you go thru your day. We’ll never be perfect this side of heaven, but that’s no reason not to try for perfection. Yes, we will fail, but it is in the trying that we will eventually succeed.
With all the resolutions we could make and all the things that seem important to us, maybe it’s time to decipher which things are MOST important to us. Might I suggest that God is and certainly should be the most important element in our entire lives? This is simply because all things come from and are sustained by Almighty God. If it weren’t for him we might have all the “things” we could ever want yet still be the loser in the end. “Things”or even other people, like your spouse are important to us but they cannot provide forgiveness for past accumulated sins. They cannot provide the way into our eternal home with Christ. It is based on that reasoning that their importance pales in comparison to our infinite and eternal God.
Make it your resolution today, the first day of the new year, to both see those all around you the way God sees them AND strive to be a little more like Jesus Christ every single solitary day from now on. Shed those things that hold you back or weigh you down from accomplishing that which you resolve to do. I’m in the business of changing my own life. Join me as we travel side by side to heaven, bringing as many others with us as we are able. Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing!
[1] - American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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