Well, by now the tinsel is drooping, the Christmas lights have stopped blinking, and the cat has broken the low hanging baubles. It's almost New Year's Day 2018. Can you imagine? Where has all the time gone?
There is no greater time to remind ourselves that the past is the past, and only what has been done for Christ will last.
Nothing could be truer.
I don't know about you, but I quit making New Year's resolutions years ago. Couldn't – or didn't I should say, keep them, so why bother. Me? I prefer daily resolutions. Each morning when I wake up, I renew my determination to do better than yesterday, so that I will be a better man for tomorrow. Better for me, means to become more like Christ. That, of course, is a big order. So, I am not foolish enough to go it alone. No, Jesus became my partner in life a long time ago. Longer than I really can remember, to be honest with you.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to please God—or at least knew that I should; and when I didn't—which was often, I felt rotten.
Feeling rotten, however, I discovered a long time ago gets you nowhere. Getting right with God in those moments is the only cure for rottenness. That should never wait for a New Year's resolution to do so, either.
Each day is a new start, so why wait for December 31st?
So, this New Year may we all resolve once again to please Christ, and each day thereafter, as well.
May you have a blessed and Happy New Year!
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