Have you made any New Year resolutions? Were they the same ones you made last year and the year before that? When it comes to living up to our New Years resolutions, most of the time we fail to keep them. Our resolutions may be good, but we’re not strong enough in our flesh to keep them.
The Bible tells us that our flesh is weak and focused on the wrong things. We do not rule our flesh, our flesh rules us. The Apostle Paul tells us in the 7th chapter of Romans that ‘no good thing dwells within us’ and ‘that which I would do, I do not and that which I would not do, I do.’ The flesh is evil.
Our sinful flesh cannot be reformed by a resolution. It must be transformed by a commitment. That commitment is found in Romans 12:1 where God’s mercy implores us to commit ourselves to God as a ‘living sacrifice.’ When we do, we will find that the flesh no longer controls us. As we read God’s Word and allow the Holy Spirit to quicken it to our hearts, we will find ourselves transformed. Jesus explains it as ‘born again.’
Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:22-24 that Christ has taught us to ‘Put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that you put on the new man created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.’ Start the New Year right. Make a commitment to God.
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