Monday, December 31, 2012

Resolutions again?

I was looking at my entry from December 30, 2010 questioning resolutions (http://1ncisfan.blogspot.com/2010/12/resolutions.html) and decided to take a deeper look at the word

according to dictionary.com the prefix "re" is defined as:
"a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion:"...

and then "solution": 
1. the act of solving a problem, question, etc.
3. a particular instance or method of solving; an explanation or answer
 
So if you want to give a answer to what a resolution is, you  can define it as "the act of solving a problem, question, etc....again and again"....The question I have is: How does solving a problem over and over again take care of the problem...the answer; it doesn't! Because if you are having to try to solve a problem over and over again, either one of two things are happening: the "solution" is an incorrect one or you are sabotaging the "solution" from working. Well both are true....in the first case you are relying on your own strength to take care of the problem and if our own effort were able to take care of it, then we wouldn't have the problem in the first place. In the other, God may have given us the answer, but we "sabotage" it by ignoring what God is telling us to do and then thinking we can take care of it.
 
So here's an idea for 2013 (happening in 7 hours as I write this)...one let's find a way to get help for our problems that doesn't have to rely on our own effort to work and second; if God is clearly telling us what to do....let's listen and ACTUALLY DO IT! If we do it, maybe 2013 will the year that you want to have instead of being a broken record.  

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