The Best New Years Resolution Ever

Want to make the best New Years resolution ever?

Here it is, to resolve to seek Christ in all things this year and for the rest of our lives. When we fail we confess our failure and begin again to obey Christ.

I do not see how anyone can go wrong doing this, unless they are doing it as a form of ritual without a heart that desires more than anything to please God and be useful to Him.

Let us not seek ritual to feel more spiritual in this new year, elevating self for our satisfaction, let us seek Christ, Him alone, for His glory.

How do we do this? We learn His word through reading of it, ask the Holy Spirit to show us truth, even if our eyes have to be opened to things we believe that are wrong.

Are we willing to ask God to show us which is truth and which is not, that we might discard anything that is not pleasing to Him.

It sounds so simple, and yet for the prideful heart it is illusive and foreign. May all those who have lived in pride reject it, have a new desire being cleansed by God to walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:3-4 "…3 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We therefore were buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. "

Remember: It is not in our own strength and resolution that we accomplish this, it is through letting go of self effort and trusting Christ more fully! The resolution is not to do or be better, the resolution is to seek Christ for this.