“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 7 Number 2
# 298 “Now That’s a New Year’s Resolution!”
January 10th, 2024

Here we go! Well, friends, we’re ten days into the new year. How are you doing about remembering that it is 2024? Here’s another question for you. How are your New Year’s Resolutions doing?! By now, probably at least some of these are already abandoned.

Here is a life-changing, God-honoring resolution that will be good for each of us! This is the resolution of which I am thinking:

I resolve, with the help of the Lord,
as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,
to become more sensitive to others around me.

I discovered something! I was reading through one of Karen’s conference worksheets. She was speaking at a ladies’ event and was speaking on this very topic. Look at the Scripture she used.

Proverbs 31:20, “She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.”

Here’s a short paragraph that Karen wrote:  Christ showed such sweet sensitivity in His ministry. The hungry crowds were fed. Those grieving were cared for by the Savior who wept. He understood when the disciples grew tired. He even cared for His mother while He was on the cross. Because of His wonderful love there ought to be a sweetness and sensitivity in our lives. We need to be encouragers to those who serve publicly. Don’t forget those who serve in less public settings. Have you thanked the nursery workers, kitchen helpers, those who care for the facilities and even those who serve on the prayer chain?

This conference was over thirty-years ago: Lots of things have changed all around me in the last thirty years. However, this application of God’s Word certainly has not changed. I want to be sensitive to others and an encouragement to those around me. Yes, indeed, this is so needed today by both ladies and men!