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Introduction:

Introduction:

Here's the full list of resolutions people told YouGov they were committed to (respondents were allowed to include more than one in their reports):

Health and Organization Beat Out Travel and Reading

According to the data pulled from Google by iQuanti, these are the most popular New Year’s resolutions:

1. Get Healthy: 62,776,640 searches, a 13.77 percent increase over last year during the same time period, when it was searched 55,177,290 times.

2. Get Organized: 33,230,420 searches, dipping by 7.41 percent compared to last year’s tally of 35,888,700.

3. Live Life to the Fullest: 18,970,210, spiking by 13.04 percent from last year, when it maxed at 16,782,030.

1. Eat better — 37 percent

4. Learn New Hobbies: 17,438,670 searches, up 4.72 percent from last year’s total searches of 16,652,950.

5. Spend Less/Save More: 15,905,290 searches, up 17.47 percent from 13,539,500 in 2016.

6. Travel: 5,964,130 searches, down by 0.82 percent from 2015’s 6,013,550,

7. Read More: 4,746,560 searches, down 5.63 percent from last year’s 5,029,790.

Grand Total: 159,031,920, up by 6.67 percent from last year’s searches, which numbered 149,083,810.

Not Just Healthy, But Fit

2. Exercise more — 37 percent

That fact that getting healthy tops the list is no shocker — it’s among the most tried and true New Year’s resolutions.

But this year, people are specifically interested in gyms fitness, rather than simply improving their health.

3. Spend less money — 37 percent

"There was a 315 percent increase around the search term ‘gym’ and a significant increase around fitness-related searches, which shows just how important people are taking physical fitness," said Sastry Rachakonda, CEO of iQuanti.

4. Self-care (e.g.

getting more sleep) — 24 percent

5. Read more books —18 percent

6. Learn a new skill — 15 percent

7. Get a new job — 14 percent

8. Make new friends — 13 percent

9. New hobby — 13 percent

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Focus more on appearance — 12 percent

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Focus on relationship — 12 percent

12. Cut down on cigarettes/alcohol — 9 percent

13.

Go on more dates — 7 percent

14.

Focus less on appearance — 3 percent

https://patch.com/us/across-america/here-are-most-popular-new-years-resolutions-2018

The most popular resolutions remain the same year after year.

It caught my eye for two reasons.

This week we are starting this series called Reset.

It is not a resolution but a reset.

The idea is like if you have a phone or computer that is having some issues, you reset it, right?

You give it a soft reset and that fixes some of those minor issues.

If you have a major issue, you have to do a hard reset, a factory reset and that clears out all of the data from your hard drive and it stores it to its original settings.

That is a reset.

It clears and fixes.

So what we are doing over the next number of weeks in this series is talking about physical, financial, relational, and spiritual reset.

Secondly, 6 out of 14 (43%) of the most popular resolutions was about fitness or the physical which is exactly what we are talking about this week!

Body:

A reset is a fresh start, a fresh look at what you have in front of you.

So we want to step back and take a reset.

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We have to know the right “why”

When I read those resolutions off, more than half of them had to do with the physical.

All of us want to be in a good place physically.

But for many of us our physical goals are like a one day to do list, right?

Let’s be real.

We don’t get very far.

According to a PhD on fitness, carrying out your physical goal starts with choosing the right “why”.

Body schema is the term doctors and scientists use to define our physical sense of self.

What is your physical sense of self?

How do you see yourself?

How do you see your body?

I think for many of us, words like “love-handles” come in or “potbelly” or maybe it is that feature that is out there a little bit or maybe “loose skin” or “heavy breathing” when we walk up the stairs.

All of us have a different view on our body schema, on how we view ourselves and how others view us.

Your body schema has a lot to do with the “why” behind any of your physical goals.

If a reset starts with the why, then I think it is important for us to look at the Scriptures and see what they have to say about our physical nature.

Turn to

9 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Paul is speaking to the Jewish believers in the city of Corinth.

These are people who understand the concept of temple.

The temple is sacred and holy and to be respected and to be taken care of.

It is of highest value.

So in one statement, Paul comes out and he identifies and defines the high value on body schema when he says your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.

In the Old Testament, God gave the temple to the people but in the New Testament, God takes the people as his temple.

When we come to Him and find salvation in Christ, what happens?

Our bodies become his dwelling place.

He resides within us 24 hours a day.

Our bodies are not like hotels.

God doesn’t just check in when we walk into church.

No, He resides within us at all times in all moments every day, every week, the Lord is with us.

He is working in us and through us and He never leaves us.

Just like the temple, the body is a place of worship but it is not the object of worship.

When you come into this building, it is the house of God.

We don’t worship the temple we are in but we respect it.

We clean it and we treat it kindly but it is the place of worship, not the object of worship.

If you are not careful your body can become the object of worship.

Every gym has 750 mirrors!

You can see yourself from every angle and multiple angles.

The greatest place to be anonymous is to go into a gym because everyone is staring at themselves flexing in the mirror.

The President of the United States can walk in and if you are at the top of a curl, there is nothing more interesting than your bicep!

If you are a trying to hide from someone, go into the middle of a gym, you are safe there!

Everyone is staring at themselves in the mirrors!

We can become really focused on self, on the physical, if we get into that.

There was a time I was constantly consumed with exercising.

I would be doing sit-ups and pushups in my room, lifting weights, or playing basketball outside no matter what the weather was.

I have known many individuals whose physical routines had become more important than anything else in thier life.

It was more important than relationships and even their time with God.

Their body was not a temple, it was their god.

Do your knees hurt because of physical training or because you have been on your knees with God?

Does your stomach ache because of crunches and flanks or does it ache because of the anguish you feel for the broken and the hurting that God has put in your past?

God doesn’t call us to care for the physical because He wants our bodies to look better than anybody else.

He calls us to care for the physical because these are beings that have been hand-crafted by the living God to be used by Him and for Him and for his purposes and for the kingdom.

Verse 20 says to honor God with your body.