Something about a New Year challenges our resolve and gives freshness to our desire. Frequently, lists of resolutions are made at the onset of a new year. Diets are selected; exercise programs charted, prayer time allocated, Bible reading charts carefully marked, and many other promises are made. Given the passage of a few weeks, perhaps even months, the resolve melts and pours into the ruts of past habits.
One person said, “My New Year’s resolution last year was, not to make any resolutions this year!” That often seems to be the easiest solution. However, we will never make needed changes and break bad habits if there is no motivation for change or desire to begin replacing them with positive characteristics. Sometimes an opportunity like this is needed to begin to assess your life, purpose, and direction. Unless you ‘resolve’ to change, you never will.
Decision begins with desire. Commitments are made when dissatisfaction sets in and change is coveted. The future is fluid. It will flow to the contour of our shaping within the confines of the Will of God. Our course is not cast in concrete. We have the liberty of directing our paths by the decisions we make. While we seek God for his direction and will, it is in our hand to exploit the fullness of life.
“Some assembly” is required in the package of life God provides. While some people may piece life together bit by bit, with no regard for the instruction manual, vainly hoping it will all fall in place some day; others carefully follow the directions provided and find the pieces always fit and the assembly is part of the experience. Don’t be bound by continual broken promises and unkept resolutions, be freed by following the biblical instructions for full life and let Jesus help you with the assembly.
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