It’s crazy to think that Jesus came to earth roughly 2008 years ago… Thats so many years. I wonder if he ever made a new years resolution. “This year I’m going to heal thirty people. Next year I’m going to save the world…” He probably never had to make a resolution, because he probably never felt the need to start new. I think that’s what drives us to do this anyway. We somehow feel that because the earth completed another rotation around the sun that it some how clears us of our past and helps us with a fresh start. “This year is going to be different… I’ll really do it this time.” We mess things up for ourselves so much that the only alternative seems to start new. Why? Because we realize that if we keep living a certain way it will only lead to destruction. Maybe while the earth revolves around one sun our lives should be revolving around a different kind of son. Maybe instead of celebrating another new year to start over we could celebrate another year spent focused on Christ. Maybe our resolution this year should be for a faith centered on and revolving around Christ and then next year we can look at how He (re)newed our lives. There a some phrases from songs that have been sticking out to me lately, and I’d like to offer them up as a prayer of sorts… I’ve modified them and mixed them together a bit. I suppose that this would be my resolution… Christ be the center of my life. Be the place we fix our eyes. Be the center of our lives. Be my everything. God in my living, breathing, waking, sleeping, resting, working, thinking, speaking, hoping, dreaming, watching, waiting, laughing, weeping, hurting and healing… be my everything. Turn your ear to heaven and hear…
