One
man said, "Here it is February and I've kept every one of my New Year's
resolutions. Yep, I've kept every one of them in an envelope in my desk."
Why do so many resolutions fail? Three things are required to make a lasting change in your life:
1) A decision to make a change
2) A point in time when it
begins
3) The power to make it happen.
New
Year's brings the first two. We make lists of the things we've decided to
change and then mark January 1st on the calendar as the starting point. We soon find out they don’t stick because we don't have the will-power to
follow them through.
The
reason is we're trying to conquer the desires of the flesh by using the strength of the
flesh. The "flesh" in the Bible means our natural
desires and impulses, which causes the problems we're trying to resolve. When
we try to change using our own strength, we fail because "the spirit is
willing but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41). The flesh isn’t strong
enough, nor is it willing enough, to make the change.
Quit
depending on your own strength and yield yourself completely to the Lord for
His power. Then you will "be
strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man"
(Eph. 3:16). God promises to give you the power through the Holy Spirit to make
the changes in your life that He desires, which is a whole lot better than making
more resolutions that you can’t keep.
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