to recognize the futility of making resolutions for the New Year.
I've thought about resolutions I've made in years past and realize how inadequate I am in keeping them. It came to me in the wee hours of the morning when sleep eluded me that I seek only one thing with all that lay before me in the new decade. I seek God. I have His grace and all the riches of His glory.
I trust Him to give me discernment when I face decisions.
I trust Him to keep me from falling when temptation presents itself with deceit and manipulations.
I trust Him to refresh me when weariness threatens.
I trust Him to heal me when illness visits.
I trust Him to meet my needs and no one else.
I trust Him to protect me from evil and help me endure and persevere in hardship and trials.
I trust Him when I don't understand, for there are times when answers do not come.
I trust Him to grant me the mercy that lets me stand in His presence because of the righteousness I own in Christ.
I want only to rest in Him and know what I know to be true: my Redeemer sustains me no matter what meets me in the morning. "For I know Whom I am believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day." May I turn my "eyes upon Jesus and look full in His wonderful face, till the things of earth grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace." selahV
