Make covenants, not resolutions, as you walk into the year, for covenants give us company in keeping what we pledge. A resolution with no witness is too often just a wish, a good intention with nothing but our declining willpower to make the vital difference.
The covenants we really need are bigger than our diets and more urgent than our visits to the gym. We need companions to whom we’ll make the most important promises of all: to tell each other just the truth; to remind each other of how good the gospel is; to continue walking side by side through any guilt or fear the new year brings.
Agree with someone in your life—a spouse, a friend, another sinner saved by grace—with whom you’ll travel in days ahead—by phone, by app, by real steps on real roads. Pledge perseverance, not perfection, for walking with another sinner will reveal how much you both need constant grace.
And when you stumble, as you will, a hand will lift you up, and brush you off, and help you keep on walking.
As this year starts, invite some other to what Jesus now invites you: “Come walk with me: keep covenant.”
That’s how you’ll stay in grace. -Bill Knott
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THE BEST KIND OF GRAFFITI (October 30, 2020)
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING (October 23, 2020)
WINNING TOGETHER (October 16, 2020)
WHEN GRIPPED BY GUILT (October 9, 2020)
BEYOND DEBATE (October 2, 2020)
BEST SELFIE OF ALL (September 25, 2020)
THE ROAD MUCH TRAVELED (September 18, 2020)
RE-TELLING GRACE (September 11, 2020)
GRACE KNEELS (September 4, 2020)
BEYOND REGRET (August 28, 2020)
TENACIOUS GRACE (August 21, 2020)
WHEN GRADITUDE IS ALL (August 14, 2020)
LOVE ON TRIAL (August 7, 2020)
WHY WE FORGIVE (July 31, 2020)
CAN'T HELP OURSELVES (July 24, 2020)
SAY 'THANK YOU' (July 17, 2020)
BELIEVABLY GOOD NEWS (July 10, 2020)
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