For those who made New Year's resolutions, are you meeting your goals?

I was just wondering how everyone who has made New Year's resolutions is doing thus far. It seems so easy to backslide but with others' motivation, perhaps they can be kept and accomplished. A lot of people commit to eating more healthfully and doing more physical activity after the new year among other goals. I am trying to keep my goal of eating more fiber and decreasing the clutter in my room (thus my life :) How about yourselves?!!

What Will You BE in 2008?

"...but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits." (Daniel 11:32)


Seems like this time every year, everyone gets all excited about making New Year's resolutions...losing weight, exercising more, spending more time with their kids, praying more, reading the Bible more, etc. And, as the pattern goes, we get off track by February!

I want to suggest a new approach to this year's resolutions. Instead of thinking about, or asking God, what you should DO this year, try asking God what you should BE this year! I believe that success in the Christian life comes from recognizing who you are, and then you live from that understanding. I believe that the true summary of the Christian faith is "be and you will do" not "do and you will be."

The verse that starts this answer teaches us that as we know God, and realize who He is, and who we are in Him, the natural result will be doing His will. Maybe we've spent too much time tinkering with our behavior, and too little time putting our faith in what the Word of God says about us?

Romans 12:2 teaches us to be "transformed by the renewing of your mind." I like to tell those that I teach that believers in Jesus are "princes and princesses with amnesia." What if you were the child of a king, got amnesia, and ended up eating garbage out of a dumpster in an alley? And what if I said, "Hey! What are you eating garbage in this alley for? You're the child of a king!"

What if you answered, "I don't feel like the child of a king!"

Would you be any less the child of a king because you didn't feel like it? Absolutely not! You'd be no less the child of royalty. Why? Because you're not a prince or princess based on what you feel, but you're a prince or princess based on what's true. And if you believed what was true, you'd begin to live out of that understanding. You'd begin to act like the child of a king! That's why Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!" (John 8:32)

So there's my challenge for you this year: What will you BE in 2008? When you figure that out and believe it, your life will begin to bear the fruit of what you believe. I pray you have your best year yet in 2008!

YES!
and im shocked!!

For the most part, yes. I resolved to start working out every day. As I found, it is actually more beneficial to take a couple days break between heavy lifting so your body can recover and build muscle. Other than that, I've been doing surprisingly well.

Yes! Last year, I made a resolution to lose weight/exercise more and that lasted just a few months.. I kept a steady weight all of 2007.

This year, we got a treadmill at the new year and I got the Nike+ for my iPod. A combination of these 2 things have kept me really motivated for working out! I'm hoping to make it a lifelong change, not just a yearly resolution :)

yes, doing much better and it helps when we try to remind urselves of self discipline as we are trying to accomplish a goal to change ourselves for the better.