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Reflecting on Resolutions

Well here we are again, another year is gone and a new year a waits us, but what does that really mean to us individually, to the whole of humanity?

Generally at this time of year most of us are busy making plans to “Party Hardy” or “Make New Year’s Resolutions” that are for the most part lost in our own ambiguity.  Yet would it not be more prudent to be pondering on our thoughts and actions of the past, in order to improve the future?  Perhaps it seems overly introspective, but have you ever asked yourself “What am I really committed too and what is it that I value above all else?”  Could one or more of your answers be; Money, Power, Influence, Acquisitions or perhaps you have identified so strongly with your job, as being a means to worth. If so, I guess my question would be the same as Jesus’; “What good would it do to attain the whole world and lose your own soul?”

What if we take to heart what we are really committed too and why, and identify what those things really mean to us, those intimately around us and the world as a whole.   After all Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “Commitment” as;

1 a : an act of committing to a charge or trust:

2 c : the state or an instance of being obligated or emotionally impelled <a commitment to a cause>

“How many of us actually take these two extremely important time frames of passage, from old and new, whether it be minute to minute, month to month or year to year  to heart and instead simply transition with little or no reflection of the opportunities lost or the successes to be gained in our personal relationships to others and Christ?”

As I grew up, I used to hear an old saying that goes something like this, “All things are fleeting and pass away and only what’s done for Christ will last.” Yet most people would say that those who take this message to heart really don’t understand what’s really important and valuable to the people of the world.  However I would beg to differ with that conclusion and instead believe it identifies the essence of what life is all about and exemplifies what is really valuable.

Imagine implementing all of the words to the popular Beatles song “Imagine”.  After all there seems to be tremendous acceptance of that ideology, because it probably evokes a warm fuzzy feeling when you become nasolgic about those four young men. But I would ask you to actually hear the words and point they made around the world using their musical talents:

Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people, Living for today… Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace… You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one, Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world…
But what if I pointed you to Christ, the only begotten Son of God, does that warm fuzzy feeling suddenly get lost and instead you no