New Year's Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions- Do you make them? If you make them, do you keep them? I have never been a fan of making them. I mean why bother making resolutions that I already know I will not keep. I think I tried last year to read through the Bible and got hopelessly behind early on. I applaud anyone who has accomplished that monumental feat. I find the whole resolution making concept curious actually. And then I got to thinking, are resolutions even Biblical?  I realize this could purely be justification for failure to keep my one resolution, but here goes. I mean if it was something we really think is important we wouldn’t wait until January 1 to start doing it. Plain and simple, we make time to do the things we want to do. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of discipline, but apparently not on a year- long commitment basis.  I prefer to live one day at a time and not presume so much on what I think I will accomplish in the coming year. If you had asked me last year what I would be doing at this moment in time, I would not have told you working part- time, blogging for our SBS, planning one daughter’s wedding, navigating middle school again, and preparing to become a grandmother(different daughter), but here I am. God in his mercy gives us days one at a time because he knows how weak we are.  A very humbling verse in Isaiah is, All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. Is 40:6 He compares us to grass, really! That will take you down a notch.  Thankfully, God loves us anyway, a lot, and doesn’t mind taking care of us.  Because of the LORD’S great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23. He wants us to become like children and depend on him for everything.  I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 Trust me, children do not make resolutions. I think God wants me to look to him every day for my marching orders.  That I can prayerfully do.