What Are Your Goals This Year? Some people call them New Years
Resolutions while others simply refer to them as, “My Plans for the New Year.”
You will also find people who don’t make resolutions simply because they know
that they will most likely break them! The most popular resolutions or goals
(whatever you want to call them) usually has something to do with health
issues. Some may want to loose weight while others want to give up smoking. Both
are quite legitimate goals but why would we want to wait for the New Year to
begin?
After 25+ years of smoking I quit cold turkey! I quit in the middle of
the summer. The way I looked at it was that I figured if this is a matter of
health than the sooner I quit the better! No one was giving me a hard time
about quitting; not my wife not my children. When I lit up a cigarette while
driving home from the office one day I asked myself; why? Why take the chance
of continuing with a habit that one day could land me in a doctor’s office and
his words would be; “John, I’m sorry but you have………………” My quitting at that
point (in the doctor’s office) wouldn’t make the verdict disappear BUT if I
quit now than there would be a good chance that I could avoid that doctor’s
verdict. So I did! I quit! Oh, it wasn’t easy and even months after quitting I
use to dream that I was smoking a cigarette and I would feel terrible. Then, I
would wake up and rejoice saying that it was only a bad dream. It has been over
20 years since I quit and I have never regretted it.
Do you smoke or do you overindulge in other areas that are bad for
you? Are you going to wait for the
doctor to give you the bad news or are you going to wait to find that your
marriage is over with or your kids are all grown up and its too late to say, “I
should be spending more time with my kids.” You can do something about your bad
habit NOW while you are still in control. Don’t wait until it is too late do
something about it now say to yourself; “I Quit!”
The Bible says that all things are possible to him/her who believes! Go
ahead quit the bad habit don’t wait until New Years!
Pastor John
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