How many times have you started New Year’s
Resolutions and failed to keep it in the end? And you feel bad about yourself,
and you started making up excuses for it, and the cycle goes on and on…. And
you never move on, and continuously feeling sorry for yourself.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)
Many will tell you to forget resolutions, but
set goal. Let me ask you, how are you going to achieve your goal if not by doing
bit by bit? This blog post (The Happiness Project) makes me realized that the
truth is you KEEP a resolution. Some days you do and there are
certain days you don’t. You move forward and you don’t feel bad about yourself.
It’s as simple as that.
Upon this contemplation, it struck me about my
life as a Christian. The LORD says: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your
God am holy. Can anyone achieve that? Even David, a
king with such a great faith, failed. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. What did
he do when he realised that? He confessed, fasted and wept, but not
without any consequence, yet when the incident passes he arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and
changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.
How
about Israel, to whom God has performed many miracles, them, the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord … and they
forsook the Lord and
did not serve Him.…And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord… every time they cried out to the Lord He delivered
them. We can’t be perfect every day, but we strive to be, and we don’t give up.[1]
Wherever you are in your New Year’s resolution,
it is never too late to return. Yes, return; you don’t have to start all over
again. Pick up where you’d lost. Return from the wrong path, turn to your
original path where it leads you to your Home, where your Father has prepared
everything good in store for you.[2]
Just remember this:
[1] “Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before” Philippians 3:13
[2] Refer
to the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)
[3] Lamentations 3:23
