Making Gospel centered resolutions for the New Year

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Small group leader Fred Bittner asks:

Every January, millions of people begin their year with New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight, getting organized, exercising more, eating healthier, and managing finances better are some of the most common resolutions. But what about making spiritual New Year’s resolutions?

He goes on to write: 

Our plans may or may not be God’s plans. If we want to be successful with any New Year’s resolution, we must seek God’s will. By his strength we might lose weight, eat better, or become better stewards of our finances. What does God want for our lives? When he convicts, he also equips us to follow through with the plan. When we know we are following God’s plan, then we have more strength to stick to it, allowing him to work well beyond our normal January 3rd quitting date.

Here are one resolutions we might consider.

Seek God’s face, and pray David’s prayer every morning for the next year.

“Create in me a clean heart, O God;

restore within me a sense of being brand new.
Do not throw me far away from Your presence,

and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me.” — Psalm 51:10-11 (The Voice)