Christian Men: What are Your New Year's Resolutions?
A new year is upon us… AGAIN and ALREADY!?
What happened to 2011?
What are Your New Year’s Resolutions?
The following are some good resolutions to make for 2012:
- Lose belly fat
- Learn a new language
- Quit smoking
- Early to bed/Early to rise
What Should a Christian Man’s Resolutions be?
The above a worthy goals but should a Christian man desire more? Shouldn’t our daily goal to be more Christlike?
What does that look like? Here are few suggestions:
- Rise, while it is still dark, and present yourself before the Lord
- Commit each day to Jesus
- Be filled with God’s Word and read 10 chapters from the Bible each day
- Pray without ceasing
- Serve even when you are tired
- Do everything without complaining
- Love your wife like Christ loves the church
- Consider it pure joy when others persecute you
- Really listen to people
- Start praying for the world. Operation World is a good resource for this
- Fast and pray for your community once a week
- Give to those who ask
- Give freely without judging the other person
- Give up your vacation time so that you can take your family on a mission’s trip
- Pray for a missionary
- Support a missionary
These are just a few tips in the journey to becoming more like Jesus.
What else would you suggest? Share in the comments!