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Post by Tim Killmeyer on Dec 30, 2014 8:37:48 GMT -5
From www.divineoffice.org : New Year’s resolutions are a common practice going back over 3,000 years. We have the feeling and the hope of a new beginning and for all Christianity this hope is renewed each year with the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Most New Year’s resolutions are personal commitments to quit bad habits and set new good ones, new goals as spending more time with family or eating healthier or exercise more. It seems the vast majority of New Year’s resolutions are in relation to physical things. If so, let us then remember: “ train yourselves to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” 1 Timothy 4:7, 8. If we are committed to follow these words and our New Year’s resolutions is to pray more, to attend church more regularly, we should still remember that there is no power in a New Year’s resolution if God is not, truly, the center of it. Honoring Him in mind and body, growing spiritually, renouncing our pride and vanity, praying to the Lord for wisdom in all regards and not becoming daunted with occasional failures, because: “The Lord guides the steps of a man and makes safe the path of one he loves. Though he stumble he shall never fall for the Lord holds him by the hand.” Psalm 34
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