Getting Refocused For The New Year

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. {Colossians 3:2}

It’s that time of the year again, where we make our New Year’s resolutions and set new goals. Are you one of those who sets them, or are you one who decided a long time ago not to even bother? I’m one of those who still believes in setting goals for the New Year. I used to make New Year’s resolutions, but I’ve given up on calling it that because it just doesn’t work for me. I’ve come to accept that on my own without the help of the Lord, I’m a failure at changing. Studies back me up on this anyway. They say only 8% of people who make New Year’s resolutions fulfill them. About 40% of us out there make them. So why even bother? But I do like to set goals and try to see if I can accomplish them. So far in the past three years I’ve been writing down my goals and I’ve been having over a fifty percent success rate. Now if I can only set goals that are more realistic to raise my chances to at least eighty percent, that would be wonderful. What it all comes down to though, is that I feel that what really matters is setting goals that draw us closer to the Lord. At the end of the day and when this life is over, what matters in the end is the Lord. Even if we fail at accomplishing our goals pertaining to this world, if we at least are accomplishing goals that are bringing us closer to the Lord, then in the end we are successful.

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