Resolution or Revolution
Resolution or Revolution.
It was January 2, 2022, the New Year had begun and I was reflecting on the past year and the many ups a downs, gains and set backs. What can I do better in the New Year going forward. It came to me clearly as I was sitting in the quietness and solitude of the deer blind, the last weekend of the general deer season here in Jack County. I don't need another resolution, and I don’t need more resolve. What I need is more of Jesus. Not a resolution that I make, but a revolution that He makes in me. Christ in me, revolting against me in this world. His power revolutionizing my weakness. His transforming purpose prevailing over all my plans in the New Year. What I need in 2022 is a total Jesus-revolution, way down deep in my soul. Down in my habits too, my eating and my drinking and my time I spend at work, home and traveling. I need Jesus’ strength revolting against all of the areas of my life where I have been too weak for far too long! My weaknesses stop me from turning resolutions into a reformed life. But the revolution power of Christ reforms and transforms me day-by-day-by-day, for 365 days as I learn and yearn to seek Him first. I’m reminded of 2 Corinthians 12:9: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me”. That’s what I’m doing at the start of 2022, and I’m inviting you to do the same. Boast in the One who has the power to completely revolutionize our lives this year.
What we really need is to ingest more of Him and His Word. We need to turn to Him more than we turn to worldly advice or what is currently not working after several tries, tears and years. We need Jesus to crowd out all of the habits and all of our addictions that we’ have resolved to stop for years and years. Here at the start of 2022, let’s revolt against all of the things we’ve been running to for comfort, when we could have been (should have been) running to the Jesus, our Comforter and friend. Let’s revolt against our tendency to self-medicate with online media and turn to God’s word, the author is our Great Physician. Do you see what I’m saying? We can make resolutions to stop spending and stop eating and start working out, but we are simply too weak and lack the resolve to make it work. We don’t need another resolution, we need a revolution of Jesus Christ’s power in us as we begin a new year, eagerly anticipating radical transformation! In closing my prayer for myself and all is, Dear Lord, More of You is what I need, more of You and less of me muscling through this life of faith another year. I am weak, but You are strong. That’s why I don’t need more resolve this new year, I simply need more of You. I will make more room and time for you and put you first in all things.
Make it a great day for yourself and someone else as we live to love and share Jesus with others
Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.