New Year, New You?

As this year is winding to an end in the next 6 hours or so, on the east coast, I am reminded how people are making resolutions.

I'm scrolling through my Facebook and I see friends posting about how they did not do well with resolutions and they are making new ones or continuing the one they've been working on for years. 

What is a resolution anyway?

I looked it up the definition and it means:

a firm decision to do or not to do something.

How many of us have made a resolution every year, but we have not kept it?

I stopped doing resolutions a few years ago because they were always about weight loss/getting healthy and I would just self sabotage. Why is that something that has to be a resolution at the beginning of the year? Why cant that be something to be worked out through the years. I feel like that one, just sets people up for failure right off of the bat. If you don't stick to it, does that mean your a failure? Nope!

This whole concept of new year, new you I have struggled with until recently. I never liked that term at all because we are always ourselves in a way and people of the world are always trying to "find themselves".

What I do like about it is we are a new creature in Christ when we are saved.

Now that I have been saved and all things are become new, my focus needs to change on my spiritual walk and who I am becoming. So in the next year, those are things I will focus on!

I have a prayer closet that has gathered a bit of dust. Time to dust it off and get back on my knees and spend some much needed time with God.

I have a husband that needs his wife to stop getting in her head and continue to be that Proverbs 31 wife.

I have family and friends who are not yet saved and there's a few of them that are constantly on the back of my mind when I know i need to pray for their salvation. 

There's other things as well to work on spiritually for myself but those are just what I'm sharing with ya'll.

As I go into year 2022, Philippians 4:6-7 will be going with me and I have decided this will be my "verses of the year" in stead of having a resolution.