New Year Resolutions

Every new year we stop to consider what changes we should make for the new year. Often times these changes have to do with health, finances, family, etc. In reviewing some resolutions Jonathon Edwards put together, I am trying to come to grips with the reality of true spiritual resolutions. Join me in examining just a few of Edward's resolution designed to make real change - change that is God centered and eternal in weight.
1 - “Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence.
2 - Resolved, to do whatever I think to be my duty, and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general.
3 - Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.
4 - Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.
5 - Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
6 - Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
7 - Resolved, never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonour, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
8 - Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
9 - Resolved, to ask myself, at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly, in any respect, have done better.
10 - Resolved, never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.
11 - Resolved, always to do that which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it. Let there be something of benevolence in all that I speak.”