Did you make a New Years resolution this year? Maybe to exercise more or eat better? Maybe you resolved to be happy and joyful in every circumstance. Or perhaps, you resolved to just be a better person this year! All of those are wonderful, purposeful decisions, and if you can actually keep your resolution, then congratulations! You, my friend, are one of the few that actually do.
You know, every single year I make a resolution too. I resolve to do this or that, or loose this or that, eat this not that...and on and on. Every single year I resolve to "do" something. But just like the majority of us, every single year I fail. There I said it. I fail. Fail.
I have resolved to a routine exercise program starting January 1st for as long as I can remember. Usually sometimes between late February and early April I fissile out. Poof! I just stop. I get tired of it. I hate it. I dread it! D-R-E-A-D it! Who wants to exercise when there is so much more I could be doing that involves very little sweat! Ha-Ha!
But here I go again....This year, I have a new resolution. I have decide though, I am not going to talk about it or say what it is. I am not going to call it a resolution. I am not going to set myself up for failure like I do every year. My hope is that by not resolving to do something, but instead wanting to do something, that I will actually succeed. If you are wondering what it is, I'm not telling. I am not telling anyone. This year, my resolution is between me and God. He knows the desires of my heart. He knows how to help me accomplish my goals. He knows.
And let me tell you, isn't it great that God never fissile's out! Even when I do, He does not. He is successful. He is perfect. When I mess up, God extends his hands of grace to me. He forgives me. His Grace is sufficient for me.
Remember, no matter how many resolutions you fail or succeed at, there is only one resolution that has eternal consequences. And that resolution doesn't involving YOU doing anything.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. – 2 Corinthians 12:8-9 (NIV)
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