The last day of the year many make New Year’s resolutions.
Here are the top 10 New Year’s resolutions according to a survey of 2,000 people:
- Diet or eat healthier (71%)
- Exercise more (65%)
- Lose weight (54%)
- Save more and spend less (32%)
- Learn a new skill or hobby (26%)
- Quit smoking (21%)
- Read more (17%)
These resolutions look good. However, as a Christian should we have different resolutions?
Love God and your neighbor with all your heart, “Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Mathew 22:37-39
Sanctification, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;” 1 Thess 4:3; Romans 12:2; Psalm 51
We can achieve these goals if we continue in faith, “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.” Colossians 1:22-23
I am sure there are many more resolutions that you need to make. Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. Blessings in the New Year!