Resolusi : komitmen sesaat atau ???

At Friday, January 23, 2009

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Resolusi bukanlah komitmen biasa bagi seorang Jonathan Edwards (1669-1758). Dia tidak hanya membuat resolusi singkat untuk jangka pendek di tahun baru. Dia membuat resolusi hidup dan selalu mengevaluasinya setiap minggu! Dia mulai membuat resolusi pada usia 17 tahun sebanyak 21 resolusi. Daftarnya terus bertambah, sampai akhir hidupnya dia telah membuat resolusi sebanyak 70 resolusi. Daftar paling atas berbunyi: "Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him by His grace to enable me to keep these resolutions. Remember to read over these resolutions once a week."

Apa resolusi Anda tahun ini?
Typical New Year’s Resolution No. 1: Actually keep this year’s resolutions.
Edwards: "Resolve to never give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be."
Typical New Year’s Resolution No. 2: Lose Weight.
Edwards: "Resolve to maintain the strictest temperance, in eating and drinking."
Typical New Year’s Resolution No. 3: Spend more quality time with family.
Edwards: "Resolve that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die. Never allow the least measure of any fretting uneasiness at my father or mother … so much as in the least alteration of speech or motion of eye."
Typical New Year’s Resolution No. 4: Always tell the truth.
Edwards: "Resolve to never willfully omit anything, except the omission for the glory of God; and frequently to examine my omissions."
Typical New Year’s Resolution No. 5: Spend more time reading God’s Word.
Edwards: "Resolve 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."

O ya Jonathan Edwards adalah seorang pengkhotbah terkenal di Amerika pada zamannya.
Pengen sih ya membuat dan menjalani komitmen seperti beliau.
Semoga kita tidak hanya membuat resolusi singkat tapi benar-benar "resolusi hidup" yang nantinya akan membuat perbedaan di tahun ini. Kiranya Tuhan menolong kita semua.

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