{"id":90739,"date":"2021-03-11T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/resolutions\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T23:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T03:06:59","slug":"resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">1Timothy\n4:8: \u201cFor bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto\nall things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to\ncome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The\npractice of making New Year\u2019s resolutions goes back over 3000 years to the\nancient Babylonians. There is just something about the start of a New Year that\ngives us the feeling of a fresh start and a new beginning. In reality, there is\nno difference between December 31st and January 1st. Nothing mystical occurs at\nmidnight on December 31st. The Bible does not speak for or against the concept\nof New Year\u2019s resolutions. However, if a Christian determines to make a New\nYear\u2019s resolution, what kind of resolution should he or she make?&nbsp; For the Scriptural answer, we examine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Historical Context: The Book of 1 Timothy was written by the apostle Paul\n(1 Timothy 1:1) in A.D. 62-66.&nbsp; Paul\nwrote to Timothy to encourage him in his responsibility for overseeing the work\nof the Ephesian church and possibly the other churches in the province of Asia (1 Timothy 1:3).&nbsp;This letter lays the\nfoundation for ordaining elders (1 Timothy 3:1-7) and provides guidance for\nordaining people into offices of the church (1 Timothy 3:8-13).&nbsp;In\nessence, 1 Timothy is a leadership manual for church organization and\nadministration.&nbsp; This is the first letter\nPaul wrote to Timothy, a young pastor who had been a help to Paul in his work.\nTimothy was a Greek; his mother was a Jewess and his father Greek. Paul was\nmore than just a mentor and leader to Timothy, he was like a father to him, and\nTimothy was like a son to Paul (1 Timothy 1:2). Paul begins the letter by\nurging Timothy to be on guard for false teachers and false doctrine. Paul\ninstructs Timothy in worship (chapter 2) and developing mature leaders for the\nchurch (chapter 3). Most of the letter deals with pastoral conduct, warnings\nabout false teachers, and the church\u2019s responsibility toward single members,\nwidows, elders, and slaves. All throughout the letter, Paul encourages Timothy\nto stand firm, to persevere, and to remain true to his calling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Grammatical Usage:&nbsp; \u201cBodily\u201d or in the Greek, \u201cSomatikos\u201d means,\n\u201ccorporeal or flesh\u201d; \u201cexercise\u201d or \u201cGumnasia\u201d means, \u201cto train\u201d; \u201cprofiteth\u201d\nor \u201cophelimos\u201d meaning, \u201cuseful; to gain\u201d\u2019; \u201cgodliness\u201d or \u201cEusebeia\u201d means,\n\u201creverence, respect Piety\u201d; \u201cunto\u201d or \u201cPros\u201d means, \u201cto the advantage of\u201d;\n\u201cthings\u201d or \u201cPas\u201d means, \u201cgenerally and specifically\u201d; \u201cpromise\u201d or \u201cEpaggelia\u201d\nmeaning, \u201cevery assurance of God in this life and the life to come\u201d; \u201clive\u201d or\n\u201cZoe\u201d meaning, \u201cexistence with vitality and absolute fullness\u201d; \u201cis\u201d or \u201cNun\u201d\nmeans, \u201cat this time, the present\u201d; \u201ccome\u201d is \u201cMello\u201d meaning, \u201cto intend.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Literal Application: For while physical training is useful in the sense of some value, reverence and respect for God is of value and gain in every way, as it holds fulfillment of God\u2019s assurances in this present life and also for the life intended for us all eternally with vitality and absolute fullness. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contextual Interpretation: The King James Version does not adequately communicate Paul\u2019s thought. He is not despising bodily exercise. Rather, he is making a comparison between bodily exercise and spiritual exercise. It\u2019s fine to discipline your physical body; it will help you for a few years. But it\u2019s far better to discipline yourself spiritually, because it will put you in good stead not only in this life, but also in the life to come. Paul\u2019s admonition is that we ought to work much harder at godliness than we do at our games!&nbsp; In this verse Paul is dealing with relative values, comparing one action to another \u2013 careful not to equate one to the other.&nbsp; He does not deny that a Christian should take care of his health as the phrase \u201cprofiteth little\u201d does not mean there is no gain at all.&nbsp; Physical health is important if, for no other reason, it provides for a better vessel to fulfill God\u2019s plan for one\u2019s life; but (to a greater degree) godliness has more utility in that it helps us in this life as well as the life to come.&nbsp; In our present existence, God provides for us the answers to life\u2019s four basic questions of origin, meaning, morality and destiny which has a direct and immediate affect on us emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and physically.&nbsp; The long-term affect has to do with securing our eternal destiny and spiritual estate.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">People who are\nbeauty-obsessed and \u201chealth nuts\u201d are not found in just the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\ncentury \u2013 they have been since the dawn of man and Paul is well aware of them\nin his day.&nbsp; They eat all the proper\nfoods. They take vitamins and minerals. They work out to keep in shape. But the\nfact is, as Paul alludes, they\u2019re going to die. All their efforts may extend\ntheir lives a few years, if they don\u2019t contract cancer or die in some\nmishap.&nbsp; <strong>Paul\u2019s charge is they\u2019re foolish if they\u2019re living as if this life is\nall there is and as if they can extend this life indefinitely.<\/strong> Paul\u2019s\nimplication is that one of the reasons we\u2019re so spiritually flabby is that\nwe\u2019re caught up with the temporal. We tend to think that we and others will physically\nlive forever. But we won\u2019t. The Puritan preacher, Richard Baxter, used to say,\n\u201cI preach as though I might never preach again, and as a dying man to dying\nmen.\u201d The Bible is clear that as members of the fallen human race, we\u2019re all in\na cart on the way to the gallows. Instead of fixated on this life and its\nprovision, we\u2019d better be preparing for what lies beyond which, defined, is\nforevermore. Because eternity is a fact, we should discipline ourselves for the\npurpose of godliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Toward this present\nlife on earth, there have been two extreme attitudes: Some have wrongly\nregarded this life as the only thing worth-while, scoffing at the idea of\nanything higher and beyond. Thus, according to the consistent Marxists, there\nis no substance to the promise of \u201cPie in the sky, By and by.\u201d Others, also\nwrongly, have scorned the present life as of small or no account, even arguing\nthat salvation consists in getting loose from it altogether. On this\nphilosophic road, at various stages, are the Hindu religionists, the monastic\u2019s\nof the middle ages; even Plato, and a few theologians who should have known\nbetter. Over against these extremes the Bible, with its unerring philosophic\nbalance, recognizes certain genuine values in both the present life and that\nwhich is to come. Paul correctly asserts that life on the present earthly stage\nis of course not the best; but it is \u201cgood\u201d (Genesis 1:31).&nbsp; Yet, to enhance this life as well as assure\nthe next, spiritual pursuits are wholeheartedly commended as better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Scriptural Comparison: The Bible does not speak for or against the concept of New Year\u2019s resolutions. Every day is the day the Lord has made, as Psalm 118:24 states, and <em>\u201cwe will rejoice and be glad in it.\u201d<\/em> One can make a resolution or promise to oneself any day of the year, and keeping it or breaking it is in their hands. One thing the Bible does say in Ecclesiastes 5:2, 4 and 5 is that if one makes promises or vows to God, it shouldn\u2019t be taken lightly:<br><em>\u201cDo not be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; therefore let your words be few. When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed\u2014 Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common New Year\u2019s resolutions are to quit something or start to do something, implication being that while these may prove worthy goals, the vast majority of New Year\u2019s resolutions, even among Christians, are in relation to physical things. However, as our primary text instructs us, this should not be.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many Christians make New Year\u2019s resolutions to pray more, to read the Bible every day, and to attend church more regularly. These are fantastic goals. However, these New Year\u2019s resolutions fail just as often as the non-spiritual resolutions, because there is no power in a New Year\u2019s resolution. Resolving to start or stop doing a certain activity has no value unless you have the proper motivation for stopping or starting that activity. For example, why do you want to read the Bible every day? Is it to honor God and grow spiritually, or is it because you have just heard that it is a good thing to do? Why do you want to lose weight? Is it to honor God with your body, or is it for vanity, to honor yourself?\u00a0 The reality is that, for many people, New Year\u2019s resolutions, or any resolutions for that matter, don\u2019t last but a few days or weeks, if even that long. Eventually, old habits and behavior patterns return, and the resolutions are abandoned or forgotten. Yet the sad thing is that once the calendar switches years again, the same resolutions may well be made again only to suffer the same fate of a breakdown of willpower and perseverance. So how does lasting change occur and how can we be sure that our resolutions lead to actual, true growth? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If we choose to make resolutions, we need to be sure that they are Biblical in nature. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a better spouse or parent, learning a proper work-home balance, or trying to get into better shape. But these resolutions are meaningless if they are not grounded in a conviction by the Holy Spirit as to specific ways in which we need to change. General terms of \u201cbetterment,\u201d \u201cgrowth,\u201d and \u201cimprovement\u201d need to be measured by specific Scriptural admonitions and standards. If our hearts are not burdened over a failure to honor God by submitting to His Word, we may modify our behavior for a time, but we will fail at changing our hearts and having our minds conformed to God\u2019s Word. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The process of true growth according to the Bible is called sanctification. It is God working in our hearts by His grace through our faith to convict us of sin, to move us to forsake that sin, and to love and desire His ways. We need to go to God\u2019s Word and listen to the Spirit of God at work in our hearts to know where we need to change. David prayed in Psalm 139:23-24:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cSearch\nme, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if\nthere be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He wasn\u2019t simply resolving to try harder to be a better person. He was interested in learning where specifically he fell short of God\u2019s holy standards.\u00a0 He wanted to know where he had sin that he needed to be aware of so he could forsake it and thereby grow and change. His resolution was to walk in practical holiness as the Spirit of God led him in the everlasting way of God, as opposed to the ways of the world. <br> <br>For Christians, making resolutions ought not to be that complex. All we need to do is to be in God\u2019s Word so that we can look at it like a mirror and then make the needed changes as God reveals our defects. James 1:22-25 says, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cBut prove yourselves\ndoers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone\nis a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his\nnatural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he\nhas immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks\nintently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having\nbecome a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in\nwhat he does.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The point is that God\u2019s\nWord is the mirror to our soul, and as we look into it with humble hearts, God\nwill reveal places of error and fault. Just as a person looks at himself in the\nmirror and doesn\u2019t present himself publicly until all the blemishes are covered\nand everything is just as it should be, so too are we to present ourselves\nspiritually. Romans 12:1 says that we need to present our bodies as living and\nholy sacrifices unto God. We cannot do this unless we look into the mirror of\nthe Word so that we know where we need to change. Identifying where we need to\nchange is no more complicated than being in God\u2019s Word and humbly yielding to\nthe conviction of the Spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So, specifically, what\nsort of New Year\u2019s resolution should a Christian make? Here are some\nsuggestions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(1) Pray to the\nLord for wisdom in regards to what resolutions, if any, He would have you make\n(James 1:5); <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(2)\nPray for wisdom as to how to fulfill the goals God gives you (Colossians 1:9); <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(3)\nRely on God\u2019s strength to help you (Isaiah 50:10); <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(4)\nFind an accountability partner who will help you and encourage you (Psalm 27:9);\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(5) Don\u2019t become\ndiscouraged with occasional failures; instead allow them to motivate you further\n(Isaiah 43:1); <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(6) Don\u2019t become\nproud or vain, but give God the glory. Psalm 37:5-6, \u201cCommit your way to the\nLORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine\nlike the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(7) LIKE PAUL in\nPhil. 3:13&#8230;. Resolve to forget those things which are behind and press\nforward.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(8) LIKE DAVID in\nPsalm 121:1&#8230;. lift up our eyes to the hills from which cometh our help.&nbsp; The greatest sin that we often commit against\nour selves, our families, and our God is to look in the wrong direction.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(9) LIKE ENOCH in Genesis\n5:24&#8230;. Walk in daily fellowship with our heavenly father<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That walk takes several things:<br><br> Daily reading of the Word <br> Daily time in prayer <br> Daily obedience <br> Daily confession <br> Daily service <br> Daily dying to self<br> <br>Christianity is not a religion, not a system, not a belief, not intellectual&#8230; it is an active, growing, living, daily relationship with a person&#8230;. with God Himself.\u00a0 And, it is not a sprint&#8230;. it\u2019s a marathon.\u00a0 So, in the New Year, work to make it &#8220;more&#8221; daily.<br> <br>(10) LIKE MOSES in Hebrews 11:25&#8230;. Choose to suffer rather than to enjoy the<br> pleasures of sin for a short while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(11). LIKE GIDEON in\nJudges 6&amp;7&#8230; Advance, even when my friends are few.&nbsp; Usually, when we are faced with a decision on\ndoing something or going somewhere, we make the decision based on the crowd.&nbsp; The truth is\u2026 In matters of righteousness and\nmorality&#8230;.THE CROWD IS USUALLY WRONG!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(12) LIKE ANDREW in John\n1:42 strive to bring our brother to Christ<br>\nI\u2019m not going to split hairs with you over Cain\u2019s question, &#8220;Who is my\nbrother?&#8221; Your brother may be your literal brother&#8230; or sister, or child,\nor parent.&nbsp; Your brother may be your next\ndoor neighbor your co-worker your room-mate your best friend.&nbsp; Andrew WENT to his brother and BROUGHT him to\nJesus.&nbsp; You may need to invite them to\nchurch, or a bible study, or singing service.&nbsp;\nBut remember there are three aspects to \u201cgo\u201d: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">GO = intentionally speaking to him about Jesus, faith, spiritual things<br>GO = intentionally turning the conversation, asking the tough questions<br>GO = intentionally living the Christian life-style as a witness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(13) Like King\nDavid\u2019s plea: &#8220;Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit\nwithin me&#8221; (Psalm 51:10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Today, as we face the tradition of\n&#8220;resolutions,&#8221; we must remember three important restrictions from\nScripture. First, whatever we promise must be genuine, truthful, and from our\nhearts (James 5:12). Second, God takes these &#8220;vows&#8221; seriously (Ecclesiastes\n5:4-5). And finally, God\u2019s requirements for our lives are both simple and\nprofound: Do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God (Micah 6:8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Conclusion: Paul\u2019s statement in v. 9, \u201cThis is a sound\nprinciple and is worth being accepted everywhere,\u201d is difficult to imagine how successful life on this\nplanet would be if, indeed, the principle of v. 8 were universally\nobserved.&nbsp; Sound minds, spiritually\ndeveloped personalities in healthy bodies would contribute to a constructive\nsociety where the sociological, psychological, political, economic, moral and\nlegal problems would be curtailed.&nbsp; Opportunity would be maximized and trade-offs\nminimized.&nbsp; So why is this not the\ncase?&nbsp; Because this is \u201cman\u2019s day\u201d (1\nCor. 4:3) when the flesh can do nothing right (Jn 9:4) because the unsaved man\nhas his values reversed (Eph. 2:2; 2 cor. 4:4).&nbsp;\nTo reject the Light of the World (Jn 8:12) is to walk in the darkness,\nstumble and fall (Jn 11:9, 10).&nbsp; Thus\nwhen lost man, with all of his pride and confidence in his ability to provide a\nviable society without Christ has utterly failed (Lk 21:26), Christ, the Stone\nwhom they rejected (1 Pt. 2:4, 7) will return to set all right.&nbsp; Until then, live Philippians 2:15, \u201cThat ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,\nwithout rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye\nshine as lights in the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year is dawning, Dear Father let it be, In\nworking or in waiting, Another year with thee;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year of progress, Another year of praise, Another\nyear of proving Thy presence all the days;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year of mercies, Of faithfulness and grace, Another\nyear of gladness, The glory of thy face;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year of leaning Upon thy loving breast, Another\nyear of trusting, Of quiet, happy rest;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year of service, Of witness for thy love, Another\nyear of training For holier work above;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another year is dawning, Dear Father, let it be, On\nearth, or else in heaven, Another year for thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8211; Frances R. 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