Children’s New Year’s Resolutions Made the Bible Way
Children’s New Year’s Resolutions made the Bible Way
helps focus on the important thing to remember
in the coming days: loving Jesus first.
What do you think?
Does the Bible teach us how to make New Year’s Resolutions?
Lots of people make plans to act better and keep good habits when they start a new year.
New year, new beginnings.
Erase all the old, bad stuff so they can write good actions on a nice, clean page.
Would that work for you?
Can we decide all on our own to change into obedient and kind people?
Children’s New Year’s Resolutions made the Bible way
will work so much better than trying to change all by ourselves.
That applies for humans of all ages, not just children.
When Jesus is in the equation, our lives add up to happier relationships
and hearts that prefer doing good rather than evil.
This is what the Bible says:
Whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
How can this verse help children make New Year’s resolutions the Bible way?
Perhaps this story from 2 Kings 19:14-36 in the Bible can help us understand:
The King Who Resolved to Live the Bible Way
Long ago Israel had a wicked king named Ahaz.
When King Ahaz died, his son Hezekiah became king.
Hezekiah resolved (which is the same as making a resolution) to live for God,
and to help the Israelite people live for God.
But when Hezekiah’s father was king, their country, Israel, had many enemies who made their lives difficult.
One of these enemies was King Sennacherib from Assyria.
When Sennacherib heard that Hezekiah resolved to live God’s way, he laughed and made fun of God, saying God couldn’t save the Israelites from the Assyrians.
He sent Hezekiah a letter threatening to attack Israel and kill them all.
When Hezekiah received the letter he went to the temple, God’s house, to read it.
As he read, he prayed to God. He read and prayed.
And God told Hezekiah, through Isaiah the prophet, that God would protect the Israelites.
That night 185,000 soldiers in Sennacherib’s army died. Now the Assyrian army was too small to beat the Israelites.
Sennacherib went home by the same road he had come to conquer Israel, defeated and humiliated. He went to worship his idol god in his temple.
While Sennacherib was in the temple, his own sons came and killed him.
Hezekiah’s resolution
to always love and obey God
kept all the Israelites
safe from the Assyrians.
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