In just a few days, 2010 will come to an end. As it does, people everywhere will resolve to get in shape, out of debt, and any number of other things they would feel proud to accomplish. Unfortunately, most of these  resolutions will be discarded before February, and the people who made them will divert their attention to something far less strenuous than going to the gym every week. The problem we face, however, is much more serious than a failure to shed a few pounds; it’s that most of us are annually wasting a God-given time of new beginnings.

You see, I believe that what this country needs is not another handful of broken New Year’s resolutions. It needs a revolution. It needs each of us standing up for something bigger than we are and making a Godly difference in our society for the glory of God. While I think it’s great for a person to determine they will get out of debt or spend more time with their family, what’s even greater is when people resolve together that they will put God first every single day of the coming year. When we do that, we can rest completely assured that everything else will fall into place accordingly (Matthew 6:33).

As we have read in the Scriptures, “… ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14) In light of this truth, let us make a resolution each and every day to serve God from the depths of our heart and not allow something as uncertain as time to shape our actions. After all, who’s to say this day won’t be our last?

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

                          -Hebrews 12:1