“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.” - 1 Corinthians 6:12

2025 is here. A New Year, full of new opportunities, new starts, and endless possibilities. That’s the narrative we tell ourselves, right? We set our resolutions and goals, declaring that THIS is the year we will stick with them! We’ll be in the gym every day, we’ll read our Bible for an hour every morning, we’ll go on a date night without the kids once a week, and then by April we’ve completely collapsed, wondering where we went wrong.

January is so often a month dedicated to cold turkey, all in or all out, pedal to the metal thinking. But what if that blindly aggressive approach is exactly why we so often fail and abandon our goals? We make resolutions because they sound good, we set goals because we think we should, without ever considering the deep rooted reason WHY we chose them in the first place. And without ever considering if we’ve left ourselves the margin needed to even achieve what we’ve set out to do. Too often, we set out on the open road with our foot to the throttle, without any consideration for how much gas is left in the tank. 

So if we want to stick to our goals, what if the solution is to identify why we set our goals and what we truly desire to get out of them, and then gradually implement more of what we want, and less of what we don’t? What if each day we became more of who we want to be, and less of who we don’t? What if we set our goals in color rather than black and white?

 1 Corinthians 6:12 makes it clear that sometimes things can be permissible, without being helpful.

So what are the things in your life that are completely okay, but not helping you at all? What are the areas in our lives where we can make room for more of what’s great, by consuming less of what’s good? What if we found the why, to allow ourselves to actually achieve the what? Maybe if we want more time in the Bible, we need less time mindlessly scrolling. Maybe if we want more meaningful relationships, we need less of those that stay on the surface. Maybe if we want more stability in our finances, we need less impulse spending. And what if finding more of Jesus, starts with a little less of everything else? Addition by subtraction, construction from destruction, life by death. So ask yourself, what good are you willing to leave yourself with less of, to find more of something great? The choice is yours.

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