January 1st, 2010 
Jojo Agot 
You’re familiar with the routine. Every year you promise yourself it’s gonna be a different year. We make lists of the things we want to change. Going to the gym, reading the whole Bible in 365 days, getting into serious relationship, changing unhealthy work habits, stop watching porn, quit smoking, treating your wife better. These are all nice goals. But then we drop the ball by the end of the month. We slip back to the same old habits we hated. It’s still the same old life, same struggles, same frustrations.
Why can’t we just succeed at this? Lord knows we are willing, can He at least help us?
While I don’t have all the answers (no one does), let me at least point out something. The probable reason why we don’t succeed at new year resolutions is that we are so busy trying to remove the FRUITS of sin (lying, cheating, lusting), not its ROOT cause (unbelief). Sin is a ROOT word, not a FRUIT word. You don’t kill a tree by removing the leaves and the fruits because even if they’re gone, we all know the tree is still alive.
Same thing with bad habits. The reason why they continue to pop up from time to time is that the root is still very much alive deep within. Deal with the root and the fruits will die one by one.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
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Have you ever gone through a period in your life when you just felt like dropping everything and running away to a place where nobody knows you? We all have. Some people feel this because of a past they can’t get over with, some because of guilt that never goes away while others because of a general feeling of meaninglessness.
