A New You?
As we enter into a new year everybody seems to want to make resolutions to do better at a lot of things. I think one of the things which is most popular this time of year is one that I have been contemplating as well, losing weight. I am at my all-time heaviest and the holidays were not kind to me (or should I say I was not kind to the holidays?)
Having failed miserably many times on New Year’s Resolutions, I would caution that we do not take the attitude of “new year, new me”. January 1 is just a date on the calendar and it will not really be any different than December 31 (except that we might sleep in later).
What I would suggest is that all of these things, whether it is shedding those extra pounds or stopping that one sin that you keep finding yourself falling into and confessing to the Lord to ask forgiveness, all of these need to be something that we admit that we are not at all likely to tackle on our own.
The only time there is truly a “new me” is after we have given ourselves over to the Lord and accepted Him as our savior. It was then that we are told in Romans 6: 3-7. Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Want some real change in your life? Give those things over to God and do your best to stay true to Him. If you have not yet given your life to Jesus then now is a perfect time to start your new life.