Resolution

Every year around this time people decide that the time has come to make some form of New Years resolution which they will attempt to carry out for a full 365 days. As we all know, more often than not, that same resolution is made the following January in hope that this year may somehow be different from the last. This year I will make a new resolution; a resolution which I hope you can all be a part of.

This year I resolve to apologize more. I will try my best to remove my personal pride and replace it with grace and humility. I will also apologize more because I resolve to make more mistakes. I'm not talking about those little mistakes that no one cares about either; I'm talking about those mistakes that become legendary. I resolve to fail more simply because I resolve to try more. Too long I have said this is the way it should be and never battled to see it take place. Mistakes will be made, apologies will be given and Lord willing somewhere along the way God will be glorified in it.

I resolve to look up more than I look across. I will look to the author of all that is good and give praise where praise is truly deserved. I resolve to encourage my brothers and sisters, not inflate them. I will look to see what God has done through and in spite of them and not look to what they have done on their own strength. I resolve to acknowledge and take joy in the fact that we are weak and that through that weakness God is glorified.

This year I resolve to make the theoretical practical. I will act when prompted and reflect the remainder of the time. I will use my youth to push us as a church and seek the wisdom of the elders to balance that youthful zeal; but change will come. The kingdom is near and the kingdom is here and I resolve to live in such a manner as to reflect this truth.

Rob