"A new year, a new me." I've seen it only a few hundreds times on Twitter and Facebook lately. It is so very cliché that no one wants hear it. When I hear those words the very first thought that enters my mind is, "Yeah, right. Whatevs!" I mean, all our lives we have heard the resolutions that have been made for the new years only to see that weeks, maybe two months at the longest, those resolutions were a set up for failure. The attempts were valiant at first. Then life after the holidays became real again and attempts drifted into memories of just good efforts.
What if we didn't actually make resolutions, per se? What if we just start small and say, "Just for today." I mean, that's the way recovering addicts make it...one day at a time. Sometimes it takes hour by hour, or maybe even minute by minute. Life can change just that quickly. We can plan our days but ultimately it is God who is in control of the clock of time by which we live.
"Oh, remember that my life is a breath!" Job 7:7
I would like to take these days, one by one, with you. Yes, you. The one reading this blog who is perhaps trying to find your way for the first time, or maybe that it is you just want to find your way back. For whatever reason you are reading this, let's do life together. One day at a time. One issue at a time. One blessing at a time. One life at a time.
I think we can do it. How about let's start with the Book of Proverbs? Proverbs is one of the most practical books in the Bible. It gives simple instruction for day-to-day life. Reading a chapter each day in the Book of Proverbs can help develop the habit of diving into God's Word on a daily basis. It has been said that it takes twenty-one days to develop a habit that lasts a lifetime. There is no better habit to have other than a daily time with our Creator. What a coincidink that January has thirty-one days in it and Proverbs has thirty-one books in it! That gives us ten extra days to get our habit strong!
What do you say? Are you ready?
