Don't Look Back

Today is the first day of a brand-new year. 2021 is finally over and 2022 has arrived. So, what are we going to do with it? What is going to be different about this year, compared to the last one?

Lots of people make New Year's resolutions. They have goals they'd like to reach or things they'd like to see happen. Most od our New Year's resolutions will end in failure. We tried but, better luck next year.
Most of our resolution goals will fail because we couldn't make a change in our lifestyle, or we couldn't maintain the change. We revert back to what once was.

2021 was a year filled with regrettable, forgettable things. Let's turn the page....no, let's close the old book and open a new book.

We need to ask ourselves two questions. Go get a piece of paper and a pencil.

Question #1 - WHAT are the things we would like to change? Make a list.
Question #2 - WHY do we want to change them?

Example: What: I want to lose weight. Why: I want to be healthier.

Now, keep asking the 'WHY' question.

Q - WHY do you want to be healthier?
A - Umm, so I won't die?

Q - WHY don't you want to die?
A - Gee, I think it's because I'd rather live.

Q - WHY do you want to live?
A - Well, it sure beats dying!

Well, then make the change! And stick with it. The key is this: Never look back.

When two angels came to get Lot and his family before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the gave this instruction:

"As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” - Genesis 19:17

Don't look back. That's where most of our resolutions and lifestyle changes fail. We look back. We remember how comfortable our old lifestyle was. We remember how good those Christmas cookies were. We look back.

"But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." - Genesis 19:26

Lot's wife looked back at her old life, and she died right on the spot.

Life is a series of decisions. Ask yourself questions before you make your choices. Make sure they are the right choices, not in YOUR eyes, but in God's eyes.

If God's name does not appear in the answers to our life questions, we need to ask ourselves one more question.

"Why not?"