Resolutions for 2025
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Searching the Scriptures
David A. Bass, Rockford Church of Christ
This time of year we often joke about New Year’s resolutions. Probably most of us can look back
at resolutions made in years gone by and see that we really didn’t take them seriously. I would like to
encourage you to make some New Year’s resolutions for 2025 and take them seriously!
First of all, we need to live each day as if it were our last on this earth. There are no guarantees that we will live a long time. We see death all around us – every day! Plants, grass, animals, and our friends and family.
The Bible says, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (James 4:13-15).
It doesn’t matter how long we live or when we will die if we are prepared for death and judgment.
A second resolution that we should make for 2025 is to forget the past and look to the future. Life
will be truly miserable if we look back at our past failures or the injuries that others have caused. The
apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 3:12-14, “Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Paul could have looked back to his persecution and felt sorry for himself; but, he refused. Let’s correct our mistakes and determine to do better tomorrow than we did today.
We should also resolve to study God’s Word every day. Did you know that the entire New
Testament can be read through in only one month by reading nine chapters each day? Something is terribly wrong in our lives when we are too busy to spend time with the Word of God!
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
We cannot grow spiritually without Bible study (1 Peter 2:2). We should “search the Scriptures” every day in 2025.
In 2025 we should resolve to be good examples. People are watching us! Friends, neighbors,
family members, fellow employees, children, etc. They are watching, listening and observing us in every situation of life. What do others see when they look at us?
Paul told Timothy, “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12).
When people look at us, they should see Jesus living in us. We are to be reflectors of the Son! We need to think before we speak or act. Remember, others are watching.
Let’s make 2025 the very best year of our lives! “Search the Scriptures.”
Send your questions or comments to: Dabass1962@bellsouth.net or write us at the Rockford
