Resolution

People make resolutions for everything. Resolutions to lose weight. To be a better person. To work harder. To exercise more. Jesus resolved to finish His mission according to God's will....and that was not just a New Year's resolution that disappears when the going gets tough... When the going got really tough during His temptation He answered Satan with the Holy Scriptures. When the going got excruciating He prayed to God to do not His (Jesus') will but His (God's) will...and prayed for the forgiveness of those that were persecuting Him...and again recited Holy Scripture, "Why have you forsaken me?" He knew Whose He was and so the resolution to finish the mission for which He was put on earth involved those responses. But He prayed constantly, believed that the minutest details were important to God, and loved thoroughly...God loved us the same way... a promise is a promise...a resolution is not meant to be frivolous...it's meant to be resolved. Finished. Completed.