I wonder how many of you started in 2023 with something that you wanted to change in your life,

raise your hands if that's you. Online, if that's you, just type in the comment section, I started

with something I wanted to change. I'm going to ask you, how's it going? Good? If it's going good for you,

congratulations, you would be the exception because according to a study of 40 million people,

it's not going that well. Ink Magazine wrote about this study and found that the vast majority of us

quit our resolutions by the second Friday in January. The vast majority of us started with really

good intentions, but we didn't follow through. The sad news is that so many of us, we have our goals,

but by the end of this year, we'll still weigh more than we wanted to weigh, or we'll still spend more

money than we actually make, or we'll still want to read the Bible daily, but we won't.

And so what I want to do is I want to talk to those of you who want to change, those of you that

hoped to change, those of you that tried to change, but you're not even sure that change is possible.

I'm calling this message when you're sick of being stuck. You can look at the person next to

if you want to, and say, I'm sick of being stuck. You can look at the other person telling I'm sick

of being stuck. You can type it in the chat if you want to. I'm sick of being stuck. If you feel like

so many of us, you feel frustrated, you're exhausted, you're embarrassed, or you're even ashamed

that you can't change. The good news is that you're not actually alone. In fact, the guy in the

New Testament that wrote over a half the New Testament, who would that be? The Apostle Paul. He

understands what it's like to try to do the right thing, but not do the right thing. In fact, his

words and scripture give me comfort when he said in Romans 7, he said, I don't really understand

myself for I want to do what's right, but what do you say? But I didn't do it. He says, I don't want

to do what's wrong, but I do it anyway. And then watch what he says. He says, oh, what a miserable

person I am. I wonder if any of you can relate with him and relate with me when you feel like that.

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