From God comes…
From God comes the New Year! Do we realize what a gift that is?
A New Year gives us more time to serve God and reflect His love to all we meet! We have another year to prioritize the most important aspects of life. We have more time to forget the failures of the past and look forward to the possibilities of the future.
Years are composed of days and each day is a gift from God. Psalms tells us, “This is the day that the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24).” Our days are gifts from God, but we choose how to use them.
To motivate good choices, people make New Year’s resolutions in hope of improving themselves. The most popular resolutions are to lose weight, exercise more, eat healthy, make more money, enjoy life more, and quit smoking. These are all admirable causes, but they aren’t really the most important aspects of our lives. The most important aspects of lives focus on God and others, not ourselves.
There are many resolution choices we could make where others, including God, reap the benefit. Kindness is a choice. Rejoicing is a choice. Patience is a choice. Focusing on the positive is a choice. Being polite is a choice. Gratitude is a choice. Smiling is a choice. Prayer is a choice. Refusing to argue is a choice. Encouraging others is a choice. Praising God is a choice. These are some resolutions worth pursuing, and I’m sure we could all come up with many, many more.
The anomaly is that when we focus on God and others, we reap the benefit as well. That’s the way good and perfect gifts from God work. They benefit everyone!
“Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God…” ~
James 1:17 (NLT)
