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Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 – Resolutions
I resolve this year to resolve this year not to resolve this year to resolve this year. If I got all of my negatives negating properly, I think I said that I promise not to promise.
The New Year is the time for resolutions. To me, resolutions are usually as useless as the calendar year is nonsensical. Think, the New Year begins not at the beginning but in the middle of the last season of the year. Personally I think the New Year should be in the Spring, which is the beginning of the earth’s renewing. But instead we begin anew in the middle of the last part of the year. But then again, why shouldn’t we begin the New Year in the middle of a season since we begin the new day in the middle of the night!
But that’s enough about my chronological challenges. How about our reoccurring resolutions? Why do we have to keep making resolutions? Because we keep breaking them. “I promise to loose weight;” “I promise to read my Bible;” I promise, I promise, I promise. Promising sounds…well, promising, but did you know that God does not want us making promises to Him…unless we keep them?
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 – (4) When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow! (5) It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
So this year I resolve not to resolve; but to just do.
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