The Bible talks about a new life and the old life, for there is a real difference between eternal life and temporal life, the one has to do only with this world and its calendar while everlasting life is just that, it is the life that goes on and on forever. Everybody born gets temporal life from his parents but spiritual life is quite another thing. The days and months and years pass on and are gone, but Eternity has no end. And if our aims and resolutions are only for days and months and years they will be gone and lost too like our earthly life.
What we need is a new life, a spiritual life. Jesus said we need to be born again to have changed lives that can really carry out those resolutions to be good to others and be acceptable to God. That is what we read in the Bible in John 3:3 where Jesus said you and I must be born again, and He went on to explain what He means about the second birth. The new birth is essential before we can begin a new life.
John 3:15-21. . . whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.We know that Jesus came to save us from an eternity outside of Heaven in Hell, but the Bible says that He came to save us from sins. From those sins in our own lives, from the things that we think and do and practice that break our resolutions to be good and do good. He came so that we can be winners in the fight to be different in the new life and in the new year. Jesus was born to save us and make us different.
Matthew 1:21 "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."
Read and study God's Word daily to learn how to be saved from our sins and resolution failures.