A new year, a new decade. But what changes other than numbers? Nothing really. So why does everyone make such a big deal out of the new year? I think it has something to do with those resolutions we all make and nobody keeps. Really, when you think about it, the kind of things we make resolutions about (devotions, dieting, exercise, journal keeping) are the kinds of things that even the most spiritual, the most healthy, the most active, and the most prolific writers skip doing on a holiday. And New Year's Day is a holiday. So basically, New Year's resolutions are a waste of time, and yet, we make them. I make them. Throughout the entire year I think of all the things I want to do.....Maybe next year. But next year comes and nothing changes. I make resolutions and a month later they go out the window. Sometimes it doesn't even take a month.
I think we all need to take a break from
our
resolutions and
goals, and look at what God desires for us, what He desires of us.
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Romans 12:1-2
Happy New Year!
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