Are you a New Year's Resolution maker?
Are you a New Year's Resolution breaker?
Usually, if the answer to the first question is yes the answer to the second is also yes. We make promises and commitments to change, to make a fresh start, to give it another try, but we usually end up in the same old habits. For many years I simplified the resolution process. I just changed the date on last year's!
See, the problem is not willpower, commitments, resolutions, or any of those things. It is our hearts. They have a tendency to drift. The fire dies down and needs to be fanned into flame. We leave our first love, as Jesus warned the church at Ephesus (and we will examine in one of our devotionals).
So, between Christmas and New Year's Day I hope you will take a few minutes out of each day to examine your life. It is not just to make a list of fresh goals and promises to God, but to take a look at our hearts, our priorities, our lifestyles and to examine where we might have gone astray.
Why has my heart grown cold?
Why has my commitment waned?
Where did my zeal and passion for Christ go?
So, in these readings we will look at some truths that need to be remembered.
This can't be rushed. This is not a read-it-and-say-a-prayer thing. No, it will take time. We must think about what we are doing. What Christ needs to do in us, aligning our hearts with his!
I hope you will take the time to do that.
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