A New Year

Have you ever had good intentions to keep a resolution and within the first week have already blown it? I have. As a kid I would give up at that point. Realizing it was broken I would just let myself off the hook and move on.

I think that happens too often today. A new plan, a new adventure, a new strategy to change ourselves into the person that God wants us to be .... one strike, one mistake, one "fall" and we throw in the towel and claim it's too hard and we will never be able to make it.

But that is not what God wants for us. He never said we had to be perfect - for He alone is perfect. He simply asks us to seek Him first, follow His commands, and if we mess up to come to Him and ask for forgiveness. We also need to ask for His strength and help for us to live rightly. With God all things are possible.

So as this New Year opens let us not just throw in the towel if we mess up, but lets ask God for His strength, power and help to press on to that goal.