As you may have noticed, this blog hasn't been updated to often and I could make a new year's resolution to try harder to do better in the future. But the sad truth is that most (some say as many as 88%) of new year's resolutions fail before the end of January.
The top ten resolutions has been compiled with the usual suspects of getting fit, loosing wait, quiting smoking
or drinking all being high on the list. It appears that every January a large number of us make an attempt to change our lives in some way for the better but most people fail to follow this through.
As a church at the moment we are focusing on the early church described in Acts 2 and trying to get to grips with ideas as to why they where so successful as a church. One of the first points that we have recognised is that they devoted themselves to prayer, the word, communion and fellowship. The key word there I think is devoted - they didn't just try something for a bit and give it a go - they devoted themselves.
As we stand looking a new year in the face whatever we want to change in life, we need to share that same sense of devotion. To simply give something a shot is never going to be good enough without we are devoted to truly seeing that change through.
As a church we are focusing on our prayer life and asking 'how we can become more devoted'? At times we all need to make changes in life, but these will never see success unless we are devoted to that change.
I pray that we will all trust in God enough to be devoted to seeing through the necessary changes in our lives.
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