Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Just one word

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.~Deuteronomy 6:5

I was just recently challenged to choose a word of focus for the year.  The first words that came to my mind were trust and faith because has been speaking to me about standing firm on His promises without doubt.  He is Lord.  He is God and I can trust Him.  

However, this morning God gave me the word that is on His mind.  His word for me is love.  All my Father wants me to do is to focus on loving Him.  He doesn’t want me to worry about my “performance”.  He doesn’t want me consumed with self-imposed checklist of growth; twisting myself into knots because I didn’t do something right.  No, He simply wants me to love Him and seek to love Him more and more each day.   I am to love Him with all of my heart, soul, and strength.  I am to love Him well.

Loving Him will take care of all of the rest for it is the fellowship of His love that will sour my trust and faith.  Love will compel me to speak only when needed.  Love will allow me to live by the grace of God and extend that grace to my fellow man.  Love is a center of my peace.  Love is the root of my joy.  Loving God is my confidence because I will be completely lost in Him.  There will be less of me; the old will past away so that the new can come.
Therefore, this year my focus is on love and thus my focus is on the main thing God.

Father I thank You for your commandment to love.  Lord may I come to the end of myself so that I love You completely and without hesitation.  Let your love rule me and guide me each step of this day and year.  In Jesus name I pray.  Amen


6 comments:

  1. Love the concept of one word.. Did this last year and God moved in a mighty way. Stay focus on LOVE and watch God move!

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  2. I have been challenged for the past couple of years now to pick One Word. There's a great little book by that name with a set of work sheets to guide the reader in picking their word. I had been leaning towards the word "audacious" because I believe I need to be more bold in many areas of my life but especially in sharing my faith. But after reading your blog and reflecting on it, I see how "love" is the place to start. It's simple yet profound and can be life-changing. Perhaps I will choose to LOVE with an AUDACIOUS heart.

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    1. I love it Ann! Loving with an Audacious Heart! Thank you for sharing. Your words make me feel like firecrackers are going off in my heart! To God be the glory.

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