What's your resolution?

Every year on December 31st, millions of people celebrate the arrival of a new year by going out on the town, heading to friends or families houses or by just staying in with loved ones.  People celebrate in many different ways and have their own traditions, but there is one thing that is the same no matter who you are! All around the world, people make resolutions to get in shape, stop smoking, or whatever else they deem as a change that needs to be made.  As I was thinking about the resolutions I would be making for myself, a thought came into my head.  If there are things in our lives that we don't like or think need changing, why do we wait until the new year to change them.

Every day we should be changing!!  Every day we should be looking at our lives and how we live them and changing not to better ourselves, not to make others happy, but to glorify the God that gives us each and every breath that we take.  As Christians, we have been issued a death sentence!  This a death sentence from the evil and sin of the world.  In 1st Peter 2:24(Phi), it says:  And he personally bore our sins in his own body on the cross, so that we might be dead to sin and be alive to all that is good. 

Jesus died on the cross so that we could be saved from the sins of this world.  He paid the ultimate sacrifice so we wouldn't have to.  So this year, while your trying to follow a new years resolution, I will challenge you like I am challenging myself!   Make a resolution to die daily to your sins.  This year... accept your death sentence!