Your Resolutions Aren't Yours
- Jan 1, 2016
- 2 min read
Happy New Year! It's 2016 and many are ready to begin the year with a fresh start, a clean slate, and a list of resolutions and goals for the next 52 weeks. So as we being this journey, let's recognize 3 truths from Scripture to guide us along the way.
(1) Vision is Good.
Proverbs 29:18 reads, "Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained" (NASB). Vision for the New Year can prove to be a great blessing. It can guard against complacency, laziness, and apathy, while keeping our eyes fixed on that which is truly important, avoiding the common distractions of a busy year.
(2) We Cannot Come up with Good Vision.
During the time of the Judges, Scripture reads, "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6). There is a clear implication here: doing what is right in our own eyes is dissatisfactory. More than that, most of us can agree that doing what we think is best is often the worst, unhealthy, dangerous, and sinful. This is why your New Year's Resolutions cannot be YOUR New Year's Resolutions.
(3) Good Vision Comes from God.
Proverbs 16:9 reminds us, "The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps."
This year is not yours to plan. It is yours to submit.
We submit these 52 weeks to the Lord. We submit our goals, our resolutions, our ambitions, and our desires to God, and we then ask for HIS vision. Resolutions that are not rooted in prayer, resolutions that do not stem from seeking the voice of Christ and the leading of the Spirit, are nothing more than man's bright ideas and nothing less than a list that needs to be thrown out.
I'm excited about 2016; not because of what I'm going to make it, but because of what the Lord has already planned and determined to make it. Oh that I can simply be a part of His vision for these 12 months!
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