Weekend Thought: Have resolve to keep resolutions

It can be a marker or mile post in our lives.

We can take stock of where we are and resolve to change things for the better in the year ahead.

The festivities are now behind us but perhaps those extra waistline inches are all too real.

A number of people fret about their festive indulgencies and are all too keen to do things differently.

Research shows that nearly half the population will make a New Year’s resolution.

The most popular resolutions are for people to spend more time with their family, followed by plans to travel more and to see more of their friends.

A large proportion want to sort out their finances, to work less stressful hours, to go on a diet, and to join a gym and start exercising.

If there are parts of your life that you’ve tried to improve and perhaps have failed, then may be this is the time to try again.

We all have missed the mark from time to time.

As an old Chinese proverb puts it, ‘Failure is not falling down; failure is not getting up’.

We can learn from our mistakes and become stronger. God does not turn his back on the person who fails – look at the story of Peter’s denial of Jesus.

It is more difficult to help the person who gives up trying.

If you have made a resolution that will bring you closer to God or to get rid of a habit that is pulling you away from God, may he give you the strength to achieve that goal.

Keep that resolve and determination on the journey of becoming more Christ-like.