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Happy New Year to each of you!

As we together begin to paint this blank canvas which will be called 2025, I wanted to share a few things that have been swirling around in my mind.

It is the norm for most of us to come up with resolutions, a chance to begin again and refocus our goals, from our physical shape, to our life with our community, to specific changes for our finances, to beginning a new hobby.  According to George Barna only 9% of people actually fulfill their New Year’s resolutions.  Yet, we make them over and over each year only to be frustrated again!

The past couple of months, I have been reading through Proverbs and it has jumped out to me that, while resolutions are not bad, many of us are spending our time and energy looking for things that are really not that important after all.  God clearly lays out in His Word what is more “precious than rubies” and what gives long life and peace.

Let’s look at Proverbs 3:13-18:

Joyful is the person who finds wisdom,

the one who gains understanding.

For wisdom is more profitable than silver,

and her wages are better than gold.

Wisdom is more precious than rubies;

nothing you desire can compare with her.

She offers you long life in her right hand,

and riches and honor in her left.

She will guide you down delightful paths;

all her ways are satisfying.

Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her;

happy are those who hold her tightly.

Unlike the U2 song, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” God is so kind to tell us what we should be looking for and where we can find it.  We can find joy, understanding, long life, and satisfaction if we focus on Him and what His Word teaches us.  These are the things most of us are seeking and God tells us how to find them!

God gave us the book of Proverbs, which is full of wisdom, and He has told us that wisdom is a “tree of life” to each of us and that we should hold onto it tightly.

In 2025, I am going to seek after wisdom and understanding by reading one chapter of Proverbs each day for 2025.  Instead of resolutions, will you join me in a quest for wisdom?

“Lord, help us seek you with all of our hearts each day of this new year.”

For His Glory

Terrie Tollerson
TRBC Women’s Life