Resolve, the firm determination to do something, is the root of resolution. Why don’t we, then, have seem to keep our new years resolution? Some firm determination, huh? I think the reason that we seem to do so poorly is because we are going about it all wrong. Usually we insist that we “need to try harder” or we “just need to stick with it”. This year, why don’t we try something different: Let us depend on God every day to show us the next step, to push us further, and to stick with it longer. When it is God that is guiding us, every resolution is easier to keep.