Resolutions

Wow!
Here we are at the end of December I know we always say how fast the months go by but I really am wondering where this month went to, oh well bring on January and 2010.

About this time every year you will hear people making New Years resolutions, one of the most common you hear is this "I am going to get fit this year" I am told that around the first of the year gym memberships will be higher than any other time of the year as people make resolutions to get in shape, the problem is this, they really do not make a resolution to get fit they just think they would like to get fit. A resolution is described the following way in the dictionary "a firm decision to do or to not do something" the reason why resolutions do not work for so many people is simple they are not firm decisions about which there is no option, they allow other options to interfere with their decision. I know something about making a decision to be healthy, one day around thirteen years ago I weighed myself and was shocked to see that I weighed 267 pounds at my height 6 feet 2 inches I was far too heavy, I decided that day that I had to change the way I was doing things, I had to change how I ate, I had to begin to exercise and these were just the physical things I had to do, then I had to change the way I thought about food and exercise I had to think healthy. I dropped 67 pounds over the next few years and today I am able to stay at my ideal weight. But one thing that will never change is my firm decision to stay healthy, I made a real resolution. James 1 states that as long as a person is double minded they will never receive anything from God because they are not stable they are unstable on translation says "irresolute" I challenge you this year to not make a random resolution, but make a firm decision about which there is no option.

Pastor Steele