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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp Ministries team.

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Instagram, and the Paul Tripp app. As we enter a new year, Paul gives us a resolution worth making

in 2024. Here's this week's Wednesday's Word.

Did you make a new year's resolution for 2024?

If so, how's it going?

How many people do you think have failed to stay disciplined for even just three days?

Is change important? Is commitment essential? Of course. But I'm not a huge New Year's resolutions person.

I love celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, or many milestone, and often I go over the top for an occasion, large or small.

So I think marking a date on the calendar is significant and worthwhile. But the reality is that few of us will radically change because of a single moment of resolve.

Sure, one or two dramatic upheavals or opportunities might change the trajectory of our

lives forever, but for most of us, our existence takes place in the

10,000 little moments of everyday life, mundane moments, unnoticed occasions, a process

of slow transformation. For followers of Jesus Christ, the promise of redeeming grace doesn't

rest its hope on isolated extreme moments of change. Quote, the steadfast love of the

Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness,

end quote. Lamentations 3, 22, and 23. Quote, so we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is

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