May I be among the first to say to you...
No particular reason other than...it's new! Fresh starts. Second {third and fourth} chances. Opportunities to grow and change and try...and probably fail now and then...and try again. And in the times I don't fail...a chance to celebrate success.
Before I launch into my verse for 2014, I just want you to know how happy I am that you've chosen to join in our lives by hanging out here at Bekah's Bits/Shafferland. We really do love you and know there are a thousand ways you could be spending your time. The fact that you want to spend a bit of each day here is sweet to us. We hope you'll enjoy our 2014 adventures! {I speak for Ryan too - though he's not the blogger, he reads it every day...and all of your comments...so that part is really from both of us.}
I've been choosing a theme verse for every year for quite a while now, and I always look forward to seeing where God takes me in choosing a verse when the new year rolls around. This year I looked at so many, but God kept bringing me back to one:
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
Psalm 25:5
Last year, my theme verse had to do with learning straight from God's teaching, and let me tell you...as a newlywed, I needed that. Learning to be a wife was a big task, and while I am fortunate to have a grace-filled husband that made the learning curve awfully pleasant, I still desperately needed God's teaching.
And I still do.
That's why I'm so excited that this verse {again} offers God an invitation to teach my heart. But more than just teaching, this verse asks for God's leading. And goodness, do I ever need that this year!
Like I said yesterday, Ryan and I stand on the brink of a whole bunch of decisions, scenarios, options, choices, and possibly changes. And we so very deeply desire God's leading in each of those things. We want to be the very best stewards of our individual lives, and then even more than that, this blessing of our relationship that God has allowed us to have.
And then there's the...ahem...waiting part. Please tell me you love tolerate that as much as I do! There are several areas of our life right now, where we're {as my mother likes to say} "chomping at the bit" for God to move. Our hearts say, Let's go, God! Open that door. Bring closure to that. We're ready to move forward! And yet just like I told Ryan the other day, I have a feeling when those situations are finally resolved and we see the answers, we'll completely understand why God delayed us.
But for now, we need to...and want to...remember that we wait on HIM. His timing. His answers.
Lead me. Teach me. I'll wait for You.
2 comments:
I have discovered that waiting on God's timing is so hard but, oh so worth it. Remind me of that next time I'm waiting for something :)
I might do that...you know, since you said I could...but I won't pray for patience. Nope! Wouldn't do that to ya!:)
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