Bill called his parents to wish them a happy New Year, and his dad answered the phone.

“Well, Dad, what’s your New Year’s resolution?” Bill asked him.

“To make your mother as happy as I can all year,” Dad answered.

When mom got on the phone, Bill said, “What’s your resolution, Mom?”

She answered, “To see that your dad keeps his New Year’s resolution.”

I don’t know if you have given any thought to making resolutions as we say good-bye to this year and hello to the next. However, our text from Paul’s letter to the Galatians can certainly give each of us a new appreciation for who we are in God’s plan and purpose for this new year. Listen carefully to his words:

^“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might…