New Years resolutions!

     I hear by resolve to...well what would I resolve to do or be should I take this seriously!  Okay, here goes.  I resolve to eat chocolate once a week or more.  I resolve to eat my baked potatoes smothered with real butter and sour cream and bacon bits and cheddar cheese!  I resolve to ignore those who irritate me and attend to those who don't.  I resolve to wear whatever I like wherever I like whenever I like.  I resolve to sit in my car and not feel guilty when someone wants my parking spot and I'm not ready to leave.  I resolve to not be politically correct whenever I like.  I resolve to not be what anyone else thinks I need to be this year.  So much for New Years Resolutions.  I resolve to not make any.  That way I won't have to feel badly or guilty when I eventually break them.  I resolve to support the right and to thwart the wrong.  I resolve to encourage the underdog and to call out the posers.  You can see how complicated this process can be.  There are those things that we REALLY want to resolve to do, say and be.  Then there is reality.  Last year I made three resolves.  First to not go over 5 miles per hour over the speed limit.  Second, to honor the two second rule in staying off the back of the car in front of me.  Thirdly, to no longer go through yellow lights.  I think I had broken all three by the time the first week of January was gone. 
     So, what is it we can resolve to do, say and be?  Perhaps this year I could resolve to be the human that Jesus wants me to be.  Wow!  But, would anyone really be able to evaluate whether or not I have accomplished this feat daily much less weekly, monthly or by the end of the year?  You see this is such a subjective resolution.  I can make the resolve to be more like Jesus.  You can also.  My definition may clash with yours.  Your definition might clash with mine.  You have the right to be wrong.  So do I.  So, what do I do?  Do I live my life defeated day to day feeling all the guilt of my failures?  Do I live my life dreading the next moment when I might just fail you, them, us or even me?  Resolving to be like Jesus won't work either.  This would require way to much coordination between the people in my life, the events in my life and the obstinacy that I bring to my life.  When I cater to what I think; I'm narcissistic.  When I cater to what you think; I'm co-dependent.  Can't win for losing.  There is a solution but it's rather radical and might offend someone.  It's so radical that I am hesitant to even write about it here in this blog.  Someone may take me seriously and actually try to accomplish this resolution.  What is it?
     I resolve to die daily and let Christ live through me.  However, whenever, and whatever He wants.  Lay my hands on someone and pray for healing? Yes!  Prophecy over people warning of the eminent coming of Christ?  Yes!  Read the Bible to people in public without apology or shame?  Yes!  Confront wrong and stand for right even when it's unpopular?  Yes!  Turn off he crap on TV and or tune to something Christian?  Yes!  Protest in the street, in the town square, in front of satanic businesses in the presence of TV cameras?  Yes!  Call on the carpet people professing to be ministers of the Gospel when all they want is money?  Yes!  Give away what I have to those who don't and bless them?  Yes!  Give a ride to a stranger and not worry about myself?  Yes!  Take a physical and verbal stand against the violence on my block, street, city?  Yes!  Call into account parents who don't parent?  Yes!  You see, there is a resolution we all can make that will be successful even if we only do it once.  Making a difference where Jesus has called us to make a difference is bringing the Gospel to all people.  I resolve to die to self.