Saturday, 29 March 2014

March - too late for New year’s resolution?


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 ChristianThe 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: 
They are NEW every morning[3]





[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

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