New Year’s Resolutions

            Goodbye 2012 and hello 2013, time to write down those resolutions and forget about them next month - does that make any sense? Every year, almost everyone around you creates at least one New Year’s resolution, but ask them how it’s going in a couple of months? Chances are they could still be going strong, but probably not.

Even I have followed the pattern, create a new me in the New Year and come February, I’m not focused on the resolution, but rather life’s little details, obstacles, and distractions. Are you the same way? You begin by telling yourself, I can do it this year, I will do it this time, but then it all falls apart! Do not be disheartened, there is hope!  

I have two friends who have not only encouraged me to create a New Year’s resolution, but if I do fail, to try and try again until it sticks. They have encouraged me by making their own New Year’s resolutions BEFORE the New Year, and being successful with their goals. It does not have to be January 1^st to create a goal for yourself and go after it.

So, I encourage you today, find a New Year’s resolution and ask God to give you strength and encouragement. Philippians 4:13 states “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.” He is my rock, and without God I can do nothing. I intend on making a New Year’s resolution, and I intend on keeping it. Nonetheless, it is not I, but God, who will encourage me, strengthen me, and make my New Year’s resolution stick all year long.