resolutions
Good point! I generally feel like I am not quite doing enough (with God, family, hobbies, interests, etc...) I think learning contentness is more satisfying than trying only one area and having to forget the rest as a result. I found some new years resolutions by Jonathan Edwards (the theologian rather than the jumper) some were a bit weird but some were great!
1. Resolved, If ever I shall fall and grow dull, so as to neglect to keep any part of these Resolutions, to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself again.
5. Resolved, Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.
6. Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.
7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
17. Resolved, That I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die
18. Resolved, To live so, at all times, as I think is best in my most devout frames, and when I have the clearest notions of the things of the gospel, and another world
22. Resolved, To endeavour to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigour, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of
28. Resolved, To study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same
?. Resolved, To inquire every night, as I am going to bed, wherein I have been negligent,—what sin I have committed
41. Resolved, to ask myself, at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly, in any respect, have done better
6. Resolved, Never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be
67. Resolved, After afflictions, to inquire, what I am the better for them; what good I have got by them; and, what I might have got by them
69. Resolved, Always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it
I like these.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think you do more than enough.