Gyms get crowded, nicotine patch sales increase, memberships for weight loss programs grows, and church attendance tends to rise. Why? New years resolutions. This is a natural season of life where we really think about life and how we want to change things for this upcoming year.
What if we could think a little deeper than the typical resolution? What if we could really dig into our lives this January? Well, this is the hope. The next blog series will be going through Jonathan's Edward's "Resolutions" to help propel us to greater commit our lives to Christ.
Jonathan Edwards preaching and writings were a catalyst to what we know as the first great awakening. During his ministry he began to make resolutions to help guide, monitor and gauge his spiritual condition. In them, we find a man who is "determined to bring every area of his life under subjection of the Lordship of Christ and to rest in the sovereignty of God." In these resolutions he gives himself a note that says "remember to read these once a week," which shows us these are not merely ideas he wrote down, but truths he passionaly tried to live by.
Over the next few weeks we will read and examine some of these resolutions, and my hope and prayer is that we would really take to heart these topics. Here we go...
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