Eternal Resolution

Many people start the new year with resolutions. They see the new year as a clean start and a fresh beginning. They set their minds to accomplishing goals and changing bad habits from the year before. The new year is a major celebration, full of excitement and eagerness to start a new journey.

What is your new year’s resolution? Your goals? What are you leaving in the past of 2015?

Take a moment to think about it. Write them down even. Envision them.

The year 2015 was a year of growth. We faced challenges, disappointments, and failures. However, we also experience true joy, peace, and blessings. We learn life lessons that have made us wiser and stronger.

Now, here were are….present in 2016.

When one has truly experienced life, one understands that as we live in this present time, the things of this world are temporary. Therefore, whatever you are hoping to achieve this year, whatever you are hoping to overcome this year.....remember this one thing:

Timothy 6:6-8 says, “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us therewith be content.”

Let 2016 be a year in that you invest in your spiritual and eternal home. Let 2016 be a year that the gifts you will bear will not be gifts of this world but gifts that last beyond this lifetime.

And this is what he promised us--eternal life. (1 John 2:25)

Let them do good, that they are rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (1 Timothy 2: 18-19)

Let your new year's resolution be focused on your eternal resolution. Write it out. Envision it. Take action.

Set your mind on the things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (Colossian 3: 2-4).

Always look up,

Lily Williams