JANUARY 2012
It is a brand new year, greeted with anticipation and bursting with possibilities. You want this year to be different than the last so in preparation for making a New Year's Resolution, you have made a list of things you want to change about your life: (Example)
1. Lose Weight
2. Make More Money
3. Spend Time With Family
You make the committment and are basically only accountable to yourself, which makes failure not only an option, but an inevitability. If it is positive change you seek, you should start by eliminating the doomed New Year's Resolution and instead, declare a New Year's Revolution.
Revolution can be defined as a basic change in the way a person thinks about or visualizes something. You need to change how you think about the New Year, shifting the typical focus on self to a focus on God--how God sees you, what God would have you change, and relying on God to help you make those changes. Visualize your life in the hands of Almighty God -- Creator, Healer, Defender, the One through whom all things are possible ("I am the Lord, the God of every person on the earth. Nothing is impossible for me.) [Jeremiah 32:27 NCV] -- and then look at your list from a different perspective:
1. Lose Weight -- My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. [Psalm 38:4 NIV]
Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"-- and you forgave the guilt of my sin. "Selah" [Psalm 32:5 NIV]
2. Make More Money -- My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
[Colossians 2:2 NIV]
3. Spend Time With Family -- If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV]
Declare your New Year's Revolution and you will be amazed by what God will do with your life!
