The song was originally written by James H. The words of the song ‘I am Resolved’ are very powerful and they certainly clearly define the objective every Christian should take in making a New Year’s Resolution. In fact, you might say: “I am resolved no longer to linger, Charmed by the world's delight.” Making a New Year’s Resolution to work on improving some aspect of our life is not the same thing as swearing an oath. That is why we do not take a New Year’s Oath at the beginning of a new year we determine (resolve) to make an improvement in our life. We compound the impact of our weakness when we turn our intentions into an oath, which we fail to keep. Jesus knows that we humans often lack the power to fulfill, or sometimes even act on, our strongest desires and intentions. In my opinion, if you are going to make a New Year’s Resolution Jesus would simple tell you to make that improvement.
When Jesus taught about oaths He was telling the people that they should not put emphasis on ritualistic oaths, like the Pharisees instead, simple do what you say you are going to do. Jesus would say: “You have heard that it was said,” and then He would explain how His teachings are a more perfect fulfillment of this Law. But, if we put Matthew 5:33-37 back into the context of Jesus’ sermon on the mount we will see that Jesus is bringing to the people the spiritual concept of His New Covenant. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ anything more than this comes from evil.” When you take this statement out of context it almost seem that Jesus does not want us to swear to do something making it easy for a preacher to twist this scripture into a doctrine of not making a New Year’s Resolution. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Most often the preacher will quote Matthew 5:33-37, where Jesus said: “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Yet, over the years I have heard more than one preacher condemns the practice of making New Year’s Resolutions. We must admit that any one of these worldly actions would probably be an improvement in our life. In any advent, there will be many people who have resolved to improve their life by addressing one or more of these issues.
Perhaps we have even given consideration to one or more of these resolutions. From a secular perspective, the top 10 most common New Year Resolutions for 2012 are: While it is true that we always have the opportunity to make changes in our life, somehow it just seems like the first of January is a good time to resolve to improve the way we do things thus, New Year Resolutions are common. In many ways that is what we call learning from the past and one way we do that is to make up our mind that we will do better tomorrow. In living with the past, it is wise to capitalize on the positive and prudent to minimize the impact of the negative. What happened in the old year, good or bad, is done and we cannot change it we simple must live with the results of the past. We are at the transition point between the end of one year and the beginning of a new year.
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