Why Do Resolutions Become Disillusions?

Resolutions and Disillusions

Why do resolutions become disillusions? Using one’s own will power, instead Holy Spirit power, is why New Year’s resolutions quickly become New Year’s disillusions. Right before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He said in Acts 1:8, “…You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you…” And one receives the Holy Spirit the moment they receive Christ as their Lord and Savior. 

Don’t Call on Resolutions

Instead of calling on resolutions to change you, call on the Holy Spirit to change you.

If you feel a stirring or prompting in your heart that you have not felt before or maybe have ignored before, it could be God through the Holy Spirit asking you to accept his Son as your Lord and Savior. If you reject the prompting of the Holy Spirit, you remove yourself from the only force (the power of the Holy Spirit) that can lead you to repentance and restoration to God. Genuine conversion (“born again”) involves both the Spirit’s convicting work and the person’s conscious decision to repent and believe.

Only God can save you. You cannot save yourself. Ephesians 2:8-9 (LSB) says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, so that no one may boast.”

Receive Holy Spirit power when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. When Jesus was on earth and right before he ascended into Heaven, He was telling his disciples that even though He was not going to be with them on earth, the Father would be sending them the Holy Spirit in a few days. Jesus said in Acts 1:4-5 (NIV), “Wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” 

Holy Spirit

All Christians have an inward spirit, the Holy Spirit, to lead us, guide us, teach us, show us, discipline us, and convict us to stay true to His word. Matthew 24:35 in the NIV version of the Bible, Jesus says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”

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