Resolutions vs. Grace of God

Year after year after year I have made, and I have seen others make resolutions only to break them within weeks, days, and even within hours. Resolutions are "laws" made by ourself to follow to make things and/or life better. Just as the LAW of the Old Testament was given to give the people as a resolution to their position, we give ourselves resolutions year after year to better ourself and our life. Just as the LAW could not be kept by "Man", why do we feel we are so much better at keeping the "personal laws" we make by stating resolutions each new year? Even-though, as Christians, so many say without God they are nothing and can do nothing, they still try to do it themselves because they do not fully understand the full grace of God through the new covenant He made with us! 

Romans 11:27
27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”

Ephesians 2:8
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Instead of making resolutions year after year after year, all we have to do is to turn to God and live in accordance to the grace He has given us. Instead of resolutions fir us to do it ourselves, make a commitment to God to allow Him to change us in accordance to His covenant with us. Nothing is impossible for God. Without Him, we are nothing.

Luke 1:37
For with God nothing will be impossible.”

John 9:33
33 If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.”

We can not do it by making resolutions or laws to try and uphold or stand by. We, through our own actions, can not keep the resolutions we make, no matter how many we make. Yet, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us!

Philippians 4:13
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

If, instead of making resolution (I pledge to go to church at least twice per month) after resolution (I pledge to go to church at least once every month), we start to live with a full understanding of the grace of God, we would no longer need to make resolutions! We would live through the new covenant that God has made with us! God"s covenant to us is a formal, solemn, and binding agreement under a seal (Christ) between God and us. It can not and will not be broken as resolutions and laws are broken. Throw the resolutions out the window and start living in accordance to the grace of God as given to us through Jesus Christ!!!

Happy New Years - let this be a new beginning of livening through God's grace!