Want change? Make a change!

It's this time of year - again; a time for New Year's resolutions and wishes for a better life next year. How many New Year's resolutions have you not kept? I stopped making those resolutions many years ago. They never worked. And breaking a promise I made to myself was not a good thing to do.
It is legitimate to want to change things. And many things in our lives need to be changed; overeating, too little exercise, complaining, murmuring, grumbling, backbiting, laziness, cheating on your spouse, etc, etc.
It's not easy to change the way we live. We may know that things need to be changed, but we don't seem to have the wisdom, will or power to change. What do we do?
First of all; wishing doesn't change anything. And New Year's resolutions are often just that - wishes for a better life.
Someone has put it this way: The life you live today, is the result of the choices you made yesterday. The choices you make today, determine the life you will live tomorrow. It's foolish to believe that living the same way today as you did yesterday, will give another result than what you see today.
How true! If we want to see changes in our lives, we need to make changes in the way we live.
If you want to lose ten pounds or five kilos, then you need to eat and excercise differently than you did yesterday. If you want to stop cheating on your spouse, you need to stop seeing the other person. If you want to save more money, you need to spend less than you used to spend.
Change doesn't come by it self. To change things, we need to make changes. It requires that we're active, it requires that we do things differently.
It sounds difficult, but it's not impossible. If Jesus lives on the inside of us, we have an all-powerful, allmighty and omniscient Person right there with us and in us all the time. He knows what changes we need to make in our lives, and how we can make them. Ask Him! "You (and I) can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth you (and me)" (Phil.4:13). All things! That includes change.
This Christmas season, don't make a New Year's resolutions, make a change!