Having a crap day?

There was group on Facebook called the “6 Resolutions of William Booth”. I remember reading it in an autobiography so I’m fairly confident that it is accurate.
The thing I like about it is its honesty…Above all things I believe God values an honest assessment of our own heart and spiritual condition. Why pretend to be this great spiritual giant when you struggle and are having a rough go of it? David cried out in the Psalms numerous times, pouring out his heart to a sometimes “distant” God. When I am struggling, I want to just admit it and not put on the “everything’s okay” façade. If it seems like everything is turned upside down and hopeless, tell Him…if it seems like everything is the best it could be…tell Him that too. I’m sure He’d appreciate the honesty.

"SIX RESOLUTIONS" by William Booth (age 20)

1. That I will rise every morning sufficiently early to wash, dress, and have a few minutes, not less than 5, in private prayer.

2. That I will, as much as possible, avoid all that babbling and idle talk in which I have lately so sinfully indulged.

3. That I will endeavor in my conduct and deportment before the world and my fellow servants especially to conduct myself as a humble, meek and zealous follower of Christ, and by serious conversation and warning endeavor to lead them to think of their immortal souls.

4. That I will read no less than four chapters in God’s Word every day.

5. That I will strive to live closer to God, and to seek after holiness of heart and leave providential events with God.

6. That I will read over this every day or at least twice a week.

“God help me, enable me to cultivate a spirit of self-denial and to yield myself a prisoner of love to the redeemer of the world.”

“I feel my own weakness, and without God’s help I shall not keep these resolutions. The Lord have mercy upon my guilty soul.”