I think New Year's Resolutions get a bad rap. Perhaps it's because we're so quick to make them. How many times have you made a new year's resolution with less than ten minutes of deliberate thought behind it? Perhaps it's because we're so terrible at keeping them. Now honestly, how long do your yearly resolutions last? Whatever the reason, new year's resolutions have ended up with a stigma so loaded with cynicism that we can't even hear the term "new year's resolution" without assuming that it will shortly be broken.
Are we so incapable of keeping commitments that we envision our future failure even as the words of resolve leave our mouth? This should not be. To accept our inability to keep promises would be to put our eternal future at risk! No, it seems that the yearly tradition of making resolutions has been intentionally warped by the negative to specifically plant seeds of self doubt in us. We pledge to change some behavior or achieve some thing, yet we know even as we do so that the first time we fail we will abandon the effort. Okay, maybe the third time.
No, we ARE capable of great commitment. We have pledged ourselves to God and we mean to keep the promises we have made with all our hearts. We can, have and do stay true to our promises-and we will continue to do so.
In that spirit, my new year's resolution is to manifest more resolve-resolve to repent.
Mike
Utah
