New Year Resolutions
Wednesday January 4, 2017
We want to behave better this year than in previous years. We want to live healthier, exercise more. We want to clean up and de-clutter. We want to budget and save money for our future. Some of us want to read more and learn new things. We want a better life and so we make New Year resolutions – promises to ourselves about how we will change. Unfortunately for many of us, although it is only a few days into the new year, many of our resolutions have already been broken. We may have had good intentions, but we did not have the power to carry them through.
In many churches on a Sunday in early January people are baptized. They are prayed over and then have water poured on them or have their bodies immersed in water. Jesus said this washing with water was a sign of new life. Is this just like a new year's resolution or is there something more to it?
Have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. (Romans 6:3, 5-8 NLT)
Prayer – Heavenly Father, I acknowledge that it is pointless to try to change my life situations by making New Year Resolutions. I am grateful that I can fully rely on the provision You have made to help me live life to the full. AMEN
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