Happy 2017! Usually I kick off my blog within the first week of the year, but this time I just wasn't ready. First I wasn't confident on my word for the year. Then once I realized God had indeed given me a "boring" word, I wasn't sure what it meant or that I liked it.
I've had some great themes in the past that I have really clung to through the highs and lows of life. I've gone deeper in my faith and really relied on God for my courage through the past few years. As I've walked through the past few weeks, I can see that the year of more isn't at all what I thought it would be.
At first I was scared that this would be the year that God was going to download a lot of blessings onto me and that I was going to be greedy and unthankful. Yes, those were my true fears. I thought it meant getting more but I've already come to learn that it instead means GIVING more. That this year is going to be a year of sacrifice. As I grieved the reality of this, I took a deep breath and leaned on my deep and courageous faith in God. I remembered that God only gives us things that we can handle with HIS help. This year I'm going to need His help a lot. I already have.
My prayer for 2017 is that with every struggle I encounter I will be able to reflect back on it in the future and know that I trusted God through it.
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