HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We are a few days into the new year. Some of you may say I should have posted this before the year started—or at least closer to the beginning. That may be true. Either I was disobedient to God in not posting this sooner, or God’s timing is perfect—and this may be exactly when He wanted this message shared. Either way some of you need this encouragement now in order to see this season as truly a “new” year. Others of you need to be reminded that just because you didn’t keep your New Year’s resolution for even a week does not mean you threw your goal for the year away. I am not one for New Year’s resolutions. In fact, the last time I even considered one was probably in my early to mid-teens. For you younger folks, that was in the 1900s. I’m not against them. If a resolution helps you focus on becoming a better person—especially in your walk with God—then by all means, do it. They just aren’t for me. If you did ...