Part of your job as a human being is to recommit.
Remember making New Year's Resolutions without stress?
You'd come up with a goal of something you wanted to start doing, or maybe something you needed to quit... and then, you'd go after it.
You'd announce it. You'd ask for support from others who could help you see it through. You'd maybe even mark the calendar with a great big "X" every day you nailed it.
It seems like we stopped doing that in the past decade or so.
We don't need to deep dive into why. Perhaps we'd blame social media and how quickly we pounce on each other for any flaw. Maybe we just feel like we need to be "on brand" all the time now.
I just want to remind you that it's okay to resolve to do something...
and then to resolve to do it again...
and then to resolve to do it again.
Yes, it would be incredible and amazing if you set the goal, started after it and never stopped. This is especially true if it's something God has shown you in the Bible that is important and clear. Full-on complete obedience is the way to go.
You will be human along the way, too.
So if by chance you do fall short, grab the hand of one of those friends and invite them to help you back up. This only works if you declare the goal out loud, so declare that goal so you can have that support.
I know you're afraid that you'll look foolish.
The truth is we always look foolish. Always.
You just get to have a say in what kind of foolishness.
When you don't feel you're making any progress, you will feel frustrated. So focus less on if you're achieving your goal, and more on if you're being faithful to the process.
Resolve to be foolish about resolving.
Part of your job as a human being is to recommit.
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:18-19)
