Good Monday morning! Warming is in the weather forecast, but not until Wednesday or Thursday... maybe. I goofed off yesterday, but I couldn't let the final day of 2007 just go by. Tomorrow is the day for those resolutions. What must be improved about ourselves for another year. Is there anything? To be saved there is nothing about us that needs to be worked on or improved. God takes each of us just as we are at the time of repentance. Some arrive at that moment in the very bottom of the pit of life. Alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals, all can come to God and receive salvation. All are sinners, is anyone worse than another when we ask God to forgive in the name of Jesus? Others come to repent in what we might call the high place of life; they have it all, fame, money, family, and lots of stuff. However, they look and realize that none of that satisfies and none of the world's things will save them for eternity.
We do not need resolutions for improvement to come to Jesus. In our Christian journey, we will take the time to make, and then keep or break, many New Year's resolutions. None of them will affect our salvation, but some of them will have an effect on how closely we walk with Jesus. Resolving to put aside lusts of the flesh, giving up an addiction, or resolving to visit people in the hospital or prison can help us to walk more closely with our Lord. Make your resolutions and have a good time in the process, but remember that you are saved in Jesus. Your resolution might be simply to learn more in God's Word, from that all other problems might take care of themselves.
May the light of our Lord shine in our resolutions for next year!
Bucky
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