New Year's Revolution

People often wonder why their New Year’s resolutions never seem to stick. The apostle Paul expressed the way I often feel when he wrote “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Romans 7:15 NRSV). No matter how hard we try, and how badly we may want to change – we often keep falling back into the same old patterns we’ve always followed. Because of this I am challenging you NOT to make New Year’s Resolutions that will be forgotten in a few weeks – but to experience a New Year’s Revolution. The dictionary defines revolution as “The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.” I think this is what we need in 2009. We need a revolution, we need to overthrow the government, we need to overthrow the government…of our lives. You see, the reason we continue to do the very things we don’t want to do – is because WE are the ones trying to govern our lives, rather than turning power over to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords – the one whose shoulders our government should rest. New year’s resolutions are fine – but what I desire is a New Year’s Revolution – a commitment to turn over the government of my life fully and completely to God.