It’s a few days before the New Year and you’re probably already making “resolutions” for 2014, right? I am going to start a new diet and stick to it. I am going to get on a budget and stick to it. I am going to church every Sunday and I’m going to pay my tithes right. I am going to let go of all the bull crap this year because it is a new year and new me! I am not going to let folks use me this year, I am not going to let my baby daddy walk all over me and I’m going to start treating folks better. But my question is, “Why wait until the New Year?” All of these things can be done, right now, can’t they? Why are you making those lies to God when, after all, He knows your heart? I find it sad that God has to, sometimes, lay us on our back before we look up to him and He has to knock us to our knees before we reach out to him. It isn’t enough that He’s given you another day, another chance and another opportunity to kick the dirt on the ground instead of still taken life for granted? For some, yesterday was another day to get high, drunk and act a fool but when will you get tired of that? When will you get tired of spending all of your money on material things that are probably still in the floor from yesterday? When will you get tired of trying to keep up with folks, who (if the truth shall be told), is one paycheck away from bankruptcy too? When will grown folk start acting like grown folk so that children can act like children? Don’t you realize, by now, that the devil is busier than ever in the lives of our children? More kids are dying every day and most don’t even have a church home to be eulogized in because the parents don’t. When will we start taking our children to God’s house instead of dropping them off at Grandma’s house? When will we start acting we might not see tomorrow because, get this, we might not. When will we decide to do better than yesterday, to let go of the past, to release all of the anger and to do exactly what you said you’d do. All I’m saying is stop waiting to get yourself together. Stop waiting until the New Year to make resolutions that you know won’t last. Start now getting it right!
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Philippians 3:12-16”
Lakisha, the Author 