I Am Resolved

Happy New Year!!  This year I start out different than many years previous.  Instead of resolving, I came into 2012 resolved.  Resolved as in Priscilla Shirer's book inspired by the movie Courageous, The Resolution for Women.  There are 13 resolutions in the book.  Statements that may sound to some like resolutions but the idea isn't try, it is to be.

After completing the One in a Million women's bible study also by Priscilla Shirer, I felt settled in my spirit that the abundant life Jesus Christ came to give us was in fact for me.  The distinction may seem small but the significance is huge.  The promises of God are for those who believe that He is and as my pastor so passionately illustrated at this morning's service, those who will couple their love of God with fear.

Having been in the Word my entire life, it is harder for me to go against the Holy Spirit than to submit.  That said, it doesn't mean I haven't done it-more often that I'd like to admit.  But with disobedience came an internal struggle, a near torture of self-condemnation because the fact that I knew I was saying/doing/meditating on things that were out of alignment with the Word God's free forgiveness was hard to ask for.

You don't slap someone in the face and immediately ask for forgiveness.  First you're arrested for assault.  Then you receive a court date.  Then you're sentenced and/or fined.  You PAY for mistakes.  There's a process to returning to right standing.

Time out for processes.  Time out for so-called mistakes.  Time in for being fully persuaded.  Time in for being resolved.  For acting like a child of God instead of just calling ourselves one.

The Resolution for Women is just that.  A bold declaration that we will be God's daughters.  Period.

I have not finished the book but I have read and reread the resolutions.  I am resolved and praying for more of God's women to become fully persuaded, to resolve within themselves that we already are who God says we are and to step out in that.

Just because a car is sitting in a driveway doesn't mean it's not a car-it's just not doing what it was created to do-drive.  I started revving up in 2011 and now it's time to drive.  I hope the road ahead isn't a lonely one; I hope to come across and build relationships with more resolved women, but if it is, so be it.

*For more information about The Resolution for Women, visit http://www.goingbeyond.com/