Well it is that time of the year again, the time when we go from celebrating
the birth of a baby onto contemplating out past year and imagining our
future. Our future we anticipate can be
better if we change a few of our behaviors, especially those that we place a
negative connotation on. It is New
Year’s Eve almost.
It is a time in the year when it seems almost anything is
possible. New beginnings are the stuff
of our imagining even when, at the back of our memory, we know that we have a
list of “resolutions” from last year that in many areas we may have to include
again.
It is a good thing to contemplate change. It is a better thing to plan a change in such
a way that we go through some smaller changes prior to the big one. If you know that you would be a better person
by stopping a particular behaviour then why wait for a new day? Life is more than I wish, change is a matter
of I will do.
Consider the matter of Jesus before the cross in the garden
when he prayed to Father to allow him to avoid the crucifixion. We wouldn’t blame Him if He had piqued out,
it was a horrible form of capital punishment.
But no He submitted to that death to permit the master plan to be
completed.
Passover was/is the Jewish New Year. A time when they had their sins expunged by
the sacrifice of a lamb, it was a particular feast day that was celebrated to
take care of the end of the year (and might I suggest that they also might have
imagined a more holy year head).
So then if the making of resolutions is an acceptable
occupation for this time of the year, what makes it separate to other
times? Change for changes sake is
potentially a good thing at other times as well. It is entirely possible to make a change for
the first day of each month
What we would need to do to make it work is to bring the
Father God into our deliberations because He enables change better than anyone
and He knows what your potential is. The
end point of making resolutions is to keep them unlike the almost recycled nature
of resolutions of previous years
It does not benefit anyone to make New Year’s resolutions only
to go back on that resolution in the space of weeks or months. It would be better to plan ahead and allow
circumstances to give you the possibility of raising the intention for change
at a time which is good for you.
This is more likely to be successful rather than using an
arbitrary date like New Year’s where the odds are against success. We tend to treat New Year’s with a little bit
of scepticism, discounting the intent that goes into making the
resolutions. Especially is it so when we
resolve to when we rely in faith upon allowing God to enable the changes in our
lives.
It is better to let people discover that we have changed our
life quietly than make a big deal of it then to fail to see that change
through.
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