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New years resolution .
Porter:
My new years resolution is 1080p. 8)
On a side note I went to sleep before midnight and was rudely awoken by gun shots and fireworks. I swear how rude! :P Bleh glad Christmas and new years celebrations are over tbh. I'm a real scrooge like that.
We all know God causes the sun to rise and rain to fall on the good and evil.
octoberose:
I spent most of yesterday taking down the Christmas decorations ! :)
The thing about resolutions is that they are only accomplished by God's hand. I'm very aware of that . So , I purpose things that I feel God has laid on me. Most if it is a big To Do list. If I don't live intentionally I can't accomplish much. I have a real desire to finally make it through reading the whole Bible in a year, instead of piecemealing it . So if God allows me to do that this year then I will. We are called to account for our actions and I try to think about what needs to be done and do it. A new calander year is just a mechanism to use. The important thing is that the Lord makes each new day and we need to live in it . 🌝
Kat:
--- Quote from: Rick on January 01, 2016, 03:17:02 PM ---News years eve the whole world is making some kind of resolution to stop doing something's in their life that are not healthy or good.
Although most if not all are sincere but do not realize that free will is not an option and no one stops anything in their life with success until God says so.
New years resolutions are a wast of time an belong to the blind ones of this age but not so long ago I too was blind in that way not that I see everything but believing God controls all thing
--- End quote ---
When people of this world do anything it is never apparent to them that it is God causing it, therefore they do feel they have a free will, as we once did. But there certainly is things that many people do overcome in their lives in one way or another, and not because they are seeking God's will, but because that is part of the good in the world. So yes they are blind to spiritual truths, but God works through all sorts of means to bring about changes for the good in the lives of some people. So a new years resolution is just another one of the ways that God may motivate people to change or not to change in a way that He has already determined they would.
So I would not say striving to do good, by a resolution or whatever means, is a waste of time, it could be just another one of the unseen ways that God is working in somebody's life. That would not effect that God is in control of all things and sovereign at all.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Rhys 🕊:
These passages are a good help when thinking of this area
Pro 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.
Pro 16:2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.
Pro 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.
Pro 16:4 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Pro 16:5 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Pro 16:6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.
Pro 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Pro 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Pro 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.
Php 3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Php 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Php 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
The majority don't have the spiritual maturity to what really matters.
So man makes plans as we all do but it's the Lord who has the final say of what is to be or not to be.
When people then say it was me and I did this it's the belief that seems a waste of time. But what seems a waste of time is God working in them as He wills.
I get frustrated with the ways of the world at times, the I, I, I and me, me ,me stuff
But need to remember
John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
Rhys
rick:
--- Quote from: octoberose on January 02, 2016, 02:44:58 AM ---I spent most of yesterday taking down the Christmas decorations ! :)
tradition of man
--- End quote ---
This is the first year I did not celebrate Christmas so I had nothing to take down becuse I put nothing up, lol . Thank God, He taken me away from the tradition of man.
God bless.
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