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“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” ~G K Chesterton

Resolved:

  • To be like Enoch who “walked with God” (Genesis 5:24).
  • To be like Abraham who “called upon the name of the Lord” (Genesis 21:33) and “believed God” (Romans 4:3).
  • To be like Joseph who refused to “sin against God” (Genesis 39:9) and let himself be “tried of the Lord” (Psalm 105:17-19).
  • To be like Moses who chose to “suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season” (Hebrews 11:25).
  • To be like Aaron and Hur who “lifted up the hands that hang down” (Exodus 17:12; Hebrews 12:12).
  • To be like Caleb who, trusting God (Numbers 13:30), said, “Give me this mountain” (Joshua 14:12).
  • To be like Joshua, “strong and of good courage” (Joshua 1:9), who said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).
  • To be like Gideon who took God at His word: “Surely I will be with thee” (Judges 6:16).
  • To be like David, “a man after [God’s] own heart” (Acts 13:22), who “served his generation by the will of God” (Acts 13:36).
  • To be like Nehemiah who wept and prayed (Nehemiah 1:4-11), watched and prayed (4:9), and worked and prayed (4:17).
  • To be like Esther who, fasting and praying (Esther 4:19), said, “If I perish, I perish” (4:16).
  • To be like Isaiah who said, “Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8).
  • To be like Andrew, who brought his loved ones to Christ (John 1:41, 42).
  • To be like John, who leaned on the Master (John 13:23).
  • To be like Stephen, who interceded for those who did not know Him (Acts 7:59, 60).
  • To be like Paul, who “forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13, 14).
  • To be like Timothy, who studied “to show himself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
  • To be like Jesus, who did the will of the Father (John 4:34).

“When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.” ~St John Chrysostom

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