Resolution 1

Resolved: "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:15

What exactly does that mean for me? For the way I deal with my family? For the way I behave at work? For the way I let my thoughts wander away on their own?

If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then that is a pretty big committment. Bigger than getting married. Bigger than becoming a parent. Bigger than anything else because my committment to God will be the bedrock of my committment to anything and anyone else. Being a Christian doesn't happen by accident - it happens because of a decision that is made once and then renewed on a daily basis.

If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then I need to re-set my priortities and compass everyday of my life in order to stay on course. It is so easy to get caught up in things that make us lose our way without realizing it or even caring.

If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then I need to throw out all the idols of the culture I live in. The idols of wealth, power, and success. The idols of youth, thinness, and perfection. The idols of food, sex, alcohol or whatever addictions we begin to put before God.

If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then I need to fall on His grace and power, rather than my own. If I am going to serve God, rather than humankind, everyday of my life, then I need to recognize His mightiness and my smallness. If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then I need to accept his love and mercy in place of my guilt and shame.

If I am going to serve God everyday of my life, then I need to start today.

CS

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. - Deuteronomy 30: 19-20