The week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day is weird. Many people use it to take a break from work to go visit family or friends. Some people desperately try to go back to work to avoid all the family and friends that came to visit. Maybe you spend it feeling thankful for the gifts you’ve been given. Maybe you spend it cruising the internet to buy yourself the gifts you “should” have been given. However, you spend your week, one thing is certain. The countdown clock for the new year is winding down to zero very soon.

What will you do? How will you spend the waning seconds of 2022? Too often we wait for the change of the calendar to be our impetus for change. As though one morning we will wake up with perfect drive and discipline. When I was in college, I would fall into the procrastination trap of “needing” to start a project right on the hour. “I will start this project at exactly 2:00pm,” but when I looked at the clock and it said, 2:07pm I’d throw up my hands and think, “Well I guess I have to wait until 3:00pm.” Or else (or else what I don’t know, I just didn’t want to start the project).

The truth is I should have probably started the project a week ago. It is never too early to do what you know is right. As followers of Christ, we have been made new. Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 says, 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

From now on! Paul doesn’t say when you’re ready to start at the top of the hour. Paul doesn’t say at the stroke of midnight on the first day of January. It can start today. New Year’s Resolutions are great, but you can have New Month Resolutions. New Week Resolutions. New Day Resolutions. If you need it make a New Hour Resolution. Trust that God has called you to be a new creation whenever you start.

Happy New Year!