From Pastor Bill

Late one December, an elementary school principal said to his teachers:  “Let’s all write our New Year’s Resolutions about how we can be better teachers, and I’ll put them on the staff bulletin board.  In that way, we can be mutually supportive in our efforts to keep those resolutions.” 

The teachers agreed and, when the resolutions were posted, they all crowded around the staff bulletin board to read them.  One of the teachers in the group suddenly went into a fit of anger, saying: “He didn’t put up my resolution!  It was one of the first ones in!  He just doesn’t care about me.  That just shows what it’s like to work around here!” 

On and on she ranted.  The principal, overhearing all of this from his office, was mortified.  He hadn’t meant to exclude her resolution.  Quickly rummaging through the papers on his desk, he found it and immediately went to the bulletin board to tack it up.  The resolution read as follows:

       “I resolve not to let little things upset me anymore!” 

Here’s the lesson.  Without commitment, a resolution is meaningless.  With this in mind, and as we begin a brand new year together, let each of us resolve to be controlled by the Holy Spirit of Almighty God in such a way that we allow Him to permeate and direct our minds, wills, emotions, and bodies.  A commitment like this will give spiritual power to our godly resolutions!

Devotedly your pastor, 

Bill Blanchard