I hope each of you had a Happy New Years Day.  I know we did.  My mama told me today that she just feels like it is going to be a good year.  Praise God!!!

Today I cooked cabbage, green beans, black-eyed peas, pork chops, and cornbread.  And of course seasoned the cabbage and black-eyed peas with hog jowls.  Why did I do that? Because my daddy always said you had to have hog jowls on New Years Day, along with the other vegetables.

I have a question.  Why do people make New Years Resolutions?  Why do we need to make them at all?  According to my Bible, if we are doing what it tells us to, everything will be alright.  We will not need to make changes.

Proverbs 3:6, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path."

St. John 15:7, "If you abide in Me, and My word abides in you, you may ask what you want,     and you will receive it."

III John 1-2, "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things, and be in good health, just as your soul prospers."

Luke 6:38, " Give and it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."

HUH???  So if I am living right and doing what God's Word says to do, then I will have no need to make a resolution, because I will be in good health.  I will be prospering.  And best of all, He will be directing me.

You may need to make a New Year's Resolution; to go to church, pay your tithes, follow God's voice, pray daily and read His word.  If so the only thing you need to do, is get down on your knees and ask God to forgive you for not doing the things He has ask you to. Then just get up and start doing them.  Praise God, for His forgiveness, grace and love.

Pat Aman

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