Adore
Do you choose a word for the year?
I am not dismissive of this New Year challenge the way I grew up to be. I have found that it can re-center my tendency to be all over the place. Although, I have to have a physical act like deliberately writing it out first thing each morning.
My morning journaling is a natural place for this to begin.
I also have found it most helpful to attach scripture to my ONE WORD to help frame a position for my heart.
“Yours, O Lord is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is Yours, O Lord, and this is Your kingdom. We adore you as the One who is over all things.”
I have discovered that if you commit such a task to the Lord, He will respond. He says He does.
I mean, He says to commit everything you do to the Lord. He also says to trust Him and He’ll help you.“The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.” So I commit.
If it’s inconceivable to think His eyes search the whole earth to strengthen your heart, it occurred to my husband one day when coming up on a red traffic jam on his GPS that surely if a computer made by man can speak back and forth to millions of phones individually and can know their location, make them aware of upcoming trouble and suggest reroutes - surely, the God of the universe who created humans has a greater global navigating system to find and direct you.
That’s not hard to see.
Truth is, God positions Himself in our lives whether we see it or not. Just because he seems hidden, doesn’t mean he is.
When this seems difficult to comprehend, I like viewing one image from an artist who uses it to form another image with positive and negative space. This purposeful design shifts our perspective. It’s an image often difficult to find, but one that has been there all along.
My own ONE WORD was a challenge to discover this year. I prayed the Lord would shine light on one.
You know how it’s said that God can open a window when you pray?
I did.
This year it’s adore.
1 Chronicles 29:11
Psalm 37:15
2 Chron 16:9