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A New Year's Resolution For Restoration

A new year is upon us. Resolutions and revelry is being planned for 2015. The cyle of celebration will come and end in similiar fashion to last year. Alchole will be in abundance and antics will abound. But as Christians we are not to particupate in such raucous and rotten behavior. So we turn to resolutions. Each person resolves to conquer something in the new year. This has merit, because as followers of Jesus, we should be eliminating bad character and behavior. However, this system is flawed due to the focus being the problem instead of the Problem Solver. Many put losing weight as the resolution they wish to achieve. This probably comes from the festive eating at Thanksgiving and Christmas that tends to add on the pounds. But rather than seek to slim down with diets and exercise, it would do a person good to search their soul and with the Holy Spirit discover the seed that had led to the gained weight.

Often we want to deal with symptoms rather than the source of the problem. People go to doctors to sooth their symptoms, but the actual cause of the infirmity may not be physical or genetic. It could be something fester in the heart. So then peopel go to a shrink or psychologist to help diagonosis their deep problems, this again avoids the source, because now the Christian is asking for another person to delve into their soul and do the introspection that only the person themself can do because it is their soul!

Then what is the answer is doctors cannot determine what is the source of the symptoms of overeating, excessive drinking, and other addictions? The answer is the resolution I would have every person reading this blog post do this coming new year. I ask that we put us in Jesus. All our problems and presumptions, everything that haunts and hinders our hearts; let us put it in Jesus and let our souls abide in Him until he reveals and helps us discover via introspection what is causing behavior like gluttony. If you do not do this, you will find yourself perpetually on diets and exercise regimes. If we do not tend to the source of the issues inside our souls with our Savior's healing power, then we shall continue the endless cycle of fighting the symptomns. You may lose the weight, but gain it back next year or worse develop another habit that hurts and inevitably harms ourselves. Only the Healer: Christ and the Holy Spirit can help you overcome these problems and actually achieve that resolution.

I say for this New Year's Resolution to put the us back in Jesus. That we go to Him and be part of our loving Savior. Only He, the Author and Creator of the Universe, knows what is going on in the galaxy of our souls. No medical doctor or psychiatrist can solve the problems with medication and advice. We need Jesus Christ to be our doctor and start removing those flaws in our hearts. He is the Great Surgeon Savior and His Sword (surgical instrument) is the only one that can cut out what nothing else can remove. So starting this year, turn to Jesus and let us, his followers finally return to the only One who can create a resolution in our lives that has Resurrection power!  

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