A whole year has almost passed. In several days, we will be into a new year. I know that many people will make New Year's resolutions. Let me count the ways.
Lose weight. Start a new diet and launch an exercise program.
Start a payment plan to end the credit card debt so often piled up over the holidays.
Take a course in self-defense or assertiveness.
Launch a program to break a bad habit.
Buy a new Bible or devotional, if you're a person of faith.
Start to do service in your community.
Join a Twelve Steps group to beat that addiction.
And so on and on. But you know what so often happens?
We find that as much as we want to keep them, we normally don't stick with New Year's resolutions.
Long ago, I had stopped making New Year's resolutions following the holidays. To me, this gesture just never meant anything. Why make such resolutions when you can't keep them?
No, New Year's Resolutions aren't necessarily bad. But how many times have many of us noted, even joked, that we usually end up breaking these resolutions?
May I give you a reason as to why we so often can't do the things that we know we should? One reason is wrapped up in this nasty, old-fashioned, offensive word called S-I-N. Yes. I know of what I speak. I know full well what it's like to know what I should do, to want to do it, to see the sense in doing it yet finding myself unable to do it. But you need not take my word for it. Someone with far more credibility and authority than I, has spoken on all this. If you want to do somethings for yourself to make 2015 better, please email me at ldesherl@gmail.com, and ask me to send you a Gospel of John. If you let him, God will use this Gospel to speak to you.
Do yourself a favor,
Lisa DeSherlia
