I love New Years and new beginnings. I am always planning what I want to do with my life and happy to have the opportunity to make corrections in my life’s course. I also like to mentally go over the things I want to do before I die and try to accomplish something off my list.
This year, I am doing the traditional trying to lose weight thing. I need to lose 50 pounds. I am not going on a diet but trying to find strategies that will work exercise into my life and modify my diet. I am working on a high fiber, low glycemic, low fat diet. I am signing up for a dance class to keep me active. I have made a bet with my sister for $50 on who loses the most (we both need to lose 50 pounds).
I also need to get out of debt. I am looking for a job or two.
What are your resolutions?
4:21 am on August 1st, 2010
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, because I don’t think we should limit self-improvement to one day out of the year.
4:54 am on August 1st, 2010
go you and your sister!! wish the best for you both. i hope to be less sedentary. I want to and hope I do, use my 1/2 hour lunch to walk/jog for the 1/2 hour around the lake at my office. wish me luck.
5:01 am on August 1st, 2010
my resolution is to lose weight to and to help me out i hired a personal trainer thats from the navy to help whip me back into shape.
so good luck to you and your sister because iam doing the diet thing to
5:02 am on August 1st, 2010
To lose weight, to be tidier, to relax more.
5:56 am on August 1st, 2010
mine:
be more confident
care about other people more
stop worrying
6:14 am on August 1st, 2010
get out of financial debt. around 8000, dollars.
6:52 am on August 1st, 2010
My 2008’s resolutions are:
1. to achieve academic success in my experience of study abroad
2. to be more active and confident in doing anything
3. to repay my parents for everything they did for me
The only thing that I need to do to accommplish these goals is to do my best!
7:47 am on August 1st, 2010
What Will You BE in 2008?
“…but the people who know their God shall be strong,
and carry out great exploits.” (Daniel 11:32)
Seems like this time every year, everyone gets all excited about making New Year’s resolutions…losing weight, exercising more, spending more time with their kids, praying more, reading the Bible more, etc. And, as the pattern goes, we get off track by February!
I want to suggest a new approach to this year’s resolutions. Instead of thinking about, or asking God, what you should DO this year, try asking God what you should BE this year! I believe that success in the Christian life comes from recognizing who you are, and then you live from that understanding. I believe that the true summary of the Christian faith is “be and you will do” not “do and you will be.”
The verse that starts this blog teaches us that as we know God, and realize who He is, and who we are in Him, the natural result will be doing His will. Maybe we’ve spent too much time tinkering with our behavior, and too little time putting our faith in what the Word of God says about us?
Romans 12:2 teaches us to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind.” I like to tell those that I teach that believers in Jesus are “princes and princesses with amnesia.” What if you were the child of a king, got amnesia, and ended up eating garbage out of a dumpster in an alley? And what if I said, “Hey! What are you eating garbage in this alley for? You’re the child of a king!”
What if you answered, “I don’t feel like the child of a king!”
Would you be any less the child of a king because you didn’t feel like it? Absolutely not! You’d be no less the child of royalty. Why? Because you’re not a prince or princess based on what you feel, but you’re a prince or princess based on what’s true. And if you believed what was true, you’d begin to live out of that understanding. You’d begin to act like the child of a king! That’s why Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!” (John 8:32)
So there’s my challenge for you this year: What will you BE in 2008? When you figure that out and believe it, your life will begin to bear the fruit of what you believe. I pray you have your best year yet in 2008!