Spiritual Resolutions

Spiritual Resolutions

Fifty percent of Americans keep their New Year's resolutions - for one month! Forty percent for six months, and nineteen percent for two years. How are you doing now that we have entered February?

Most of our New Year's resolutions revolve around the spheres of dieting and breaking bad habits. Their goal is to make the New Year a healthier and happier one.

I wonder have we kept any of the spiritual resolutions we made for this New Year? If you still haven't made any, it's never too late. Here are a few I read recently and I pray we will all take them to heart:

"I will:

  • Like Enoch - walk in daily fellowship with my Heavenly Father.
  • Like Abraham - trust implicitly in my God.
  • Like Job - be patient under all circumstances.
  • Like Joseph - turn my back on all seductive advances.
  • Like Moses - choose to suffer rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin.
  • Like Caleb and Joshua - refuse to be discouraged because of numbers.
  • Like Gideon - advance, even though my friends are few.
  • Like David - lift up my eyes to the hills from which comes my help.
  • Like Jehoshaphat - prepare my heart to seek the Lord.
  • Like Daniel - commune with God at all times and in all places.
  • Like Andrew - strive to lead others to Christ.
  • Like Stephen - manifest a forgiving spirit toward all who seek my hurt.
  • Like Paul - forget those things that are behind and press forward".

May our prayer be...

"Another year is dawning:
Dear Father, let it be,
In working or in waiting,
Another year with Thee;
Another year of progress,
Another year of praise,
Another year of proving
Thy presence all my days".

It's never too late in the year to make new spiritual resolutions - why not start now!