The New Day’s Resolution

The last day of January!

How the month has flown!

Like the children born yesterday,

How quickly they’ve grown!

Like yesterday we started out

With a “Happy New Year”!

Now far from being old

The month has disappeared.

The month of fresh resolve

Bids us all adieu,

The love month as we term it

Comes clearly into view.

So many things to do

And so little time it appears,

How many will we complete

By the end of the current year?

A resolution for sure

That we ought always to keep

Is to focus our eyes on Jesus

As his will we daily seek.

The likelihood of falling

Is kept constantly at bay

When we keep our eyes on Jesus

And walk in his way.

Such a resolve is renewed

Not at the beginning of the year

But each and every day

As each dawn appears.

Father, thank you for your daily care

I reciprocate your love to me,

Help me in your way to walk

Being what you want me to be.

Such a resolve has more thrust

Than that beginning the year

Since it’s renewed on a daily base

As we breathe the new day’s air.

For with the passage of each day

Our resolve will wane

 But at the dawn of a new day

It will be re-enacted again.

In this way it is more likely

To survive the whole year,

I am referring to that resolution

Which by February disappears.

Let this be our daily resolve

To keep our eyes on Jesus,

Steadfast in commitment to him

To ever walk in his purpose.

Stewart Russell © January