New Years Resolution

2020 is over, finally. I’ve been asked a lot about what my New Years resolution is, and honestly, I’m just thankful that 2020 is behind us. Even as I type that, I cringe a little at the lack of faith that statement has. 2020 was written long before it played out. But yet, what about this past year seemed so impossible to overcome? Maybe it was COVID-19, and it’s implications or reasons specific just to you. For me, it was both. Two verses helped me, and I know God sent them to me not only for 2020 but as a reminder of His desire for us.

1. Although not released this year, Zach Williams' song, “Fear is a Liar,” is what I considered my soundtrack. Subsequently, Matthew 6:25 -27 has found its way written on my bathroom mirror and plenty of sticky notes throughout the year. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”

2. 2 Timothy 1: 7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind.” How powerful is that? That tells me, not only is worrying not going to get me anywhere, it‘s simply not from God. God does not give us a Spirit of Fear. If it’s not from God, it’s worth letting go, is it not? From someone who struggles with fear and doubt, repeating the key phrases of those verses, and reminding myself daily of God’s love for me, I made it through the most anxious times of the past year. My only new year resolution is to move past the difficulties of 2020 and continue to cling to the truths God has revealed while striving to be a woman not burdened by a spirit of fear.