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New Year's Resolutions: The Changes We Choose In Life

New Year's resolutions last for a few days, perhaps a little longer and, yet for many people, they are a complete waste of time and thought.  It seems strange, that we spend so much effort at the beginning of each year trying to re-organize our lives in the time we have left, in our lives. 

Unfortunately, the changes we choose in life usually involve changes to our own lives and offer little to change someone else's situation.  If we decide to go on a diet, it hardly prompts us to think about someone who may be starving, or if we think about saving our money, do we consider those who have no income or those who cannot provide for themselves? 

We may need to be more tidy, in cleaning our rooms or regulating our lives, or even being more diligent in our studies or our work - but there are those who do not have a room to clean or a course of study to follow, or a life to live.  Seldom do our New Year's resolutions involve how change itself can not just change one life, but many. 

In the past few weeks, even a casual glance at the American Primaries, the preliminary engagements in the Presidential Elections, give us an insight as to how human ambition can and may overwhelm the aspirations of many.  The 'clue to success' seems to be in discrediting, even destroying, your opponent - whether you are on the same side or not.   If all fails, probably wealth will generate success; at least, rhetoric will change people's lives, perhaps not honesty or truth or integrity. 

Through Jesus Christ, God resolves to change us, and the process is still very much in operation.  His will of love and care is for all people, regardless of the colour of their skin, their intellect, their wealth, the place where they were born, or even their disregard for Him.  However popular we may think we are, however resolved or focused - we will all have a longer time than a few days to answer to Him about the few moments that may have changed us, in any year, which may have made us popular or credible.