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My friend Melissa sent me this & it is right where I'm at!
Instead of having the all too familiar gnawing on my heart (Will I meet The One this year? Have a finally waited long enough, Lord?), I have to confess something, dear friends.
Something else has taken it's place.
Do I still want and hope for marriage and family? YES!
But I feel like I'm getting closer to expanding my borders of ministry this year. Not exactly sure what that means or what the Lord has in store for me, but I'm getting little glimpses of what might be coming and I'm so excited!
What ever the ministry ends up being, my goal this year is that through it
God will get the GLORY,
others will get the BLESSING and, as a result. . .
I will get the JOY!
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by Nicole Whitacre on Jan 3
Each year we make New Year's resolutions for things we want to change, but we also have New Year's hopes for things we can't change, but wish we could. We long to receive certain desires of our heart that seem elusively out of reach. And maybe, just maybe, we will see those hopes fulfilled this year.
When I was single, I hoped for a husband. Maybe this year, he will come. I imagined myself married by the following New Year, or at least engaged. Maybe the New Year was holding my future husband in the wings. God eventually gave me an amazing husband, but new hopes still sprang up with each New Year's Day. When we lived in a teeny apartment, I wanted to move to a bigger place. When I experienced secondary infertility, I wanted to have another child. Maybe this year.
I'm sure you have hopes for this year. They are probably whatever you are thinking about right now.
But in her book, Keep A Quiet Heart, Elisabeth Elliot encourages us to focus on the most important of New Year's hopes:
“Will the young woman find a mate? Will the couple have a child? Maybe this year will be the year of desire fulfilled. Perhaps, on the other hand, it will be the year of desire radically transformed, the year of finding, as we have perhaps not yet truly found, Christ to be the All-Sufficient One, Christ the ‘deep sweet well of Love’” (page 49, emphasis mine).
This year, let us ask God to dissolve all our hopes (however good they may be!) into a single hope: to know Christ and to be found in Him. May this be a year of desire radically transformed, a deeper, truer, knowing of Christ as our All-Sufficient One.
“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:7-8a)
