What can you accomplish in an hour?
OK. Now, what could you do in 8,760 hours?
Hopefully, we all have that many hours in 2025. If you could get your most desired goal accomplished this year, what would you select to do?
If you look on www. readingtoday.yougov.com, you can find out many people don’t make resolutions. Among those who do, the top resolution is to save money.
What else do Americans want to do this year? They hope to improve health, exercise more, be happy and eat healthier.
Results depend on who you poll. What would happen if you took a poll of your family or your friends, or your church members. What could you learn?
Is reflection on what you want to do in the New Year, or goals for yourself this year, valuable? I think it is.
Spiritual goals are, in my opinion, the most important goals to make and to work toward making happen with God’s help!
Of the goals in the yougov survey, how many have eternal value? Matthew 6:19-21 says: “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”
That is true, but the Bible also says to be wise with money in Proverbs 27:12: “A prudent person forsees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.”
There is a tension between living in the here and now on Earth and living in the future Kingdom of God where our real, eternal home is. We are told in 2 Corinthians 4:18: “as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
Taking care of our bodies is a good goal and is spiritual because 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Do you to know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
Isn’t it interesting that three of the top five resolutions involve improving our bodies. The other is about being happy. Perhaps a better goal is for joy! Joy comes from God despite our circumstances. Jeremiah 31:13 says, “I (God) will turn their morning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.”
Now then, what are your resolutions?
