For Tuesday, January 15: Resolution solutions

Let your resolution be his solution. Unknown

Okay. It's a bit of a cheesy quote to be sure but something about it appeals to me. And in a twist on the phrase my mind keeps changing it to also read, "let his solution be your resolution." I think that most of the time that needs to be the truer sentiment. I need to resolve that God's solutions for the things that come up in my life are best. And too often I don't hold to that resolution. Too often I go to him last for solutions rather than go to him first. So yes, whatever I resolve to accomplish I should leave in his capable hands but more than that my whole life, and all that happens in it, I should be resolved that he has solutions already - ones that I cannot even come up with.

What about you? Are you resolved to allow God to be the solution to what comes up in your life?

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