I was inspired by a verse just yesterday and I wanted to share and hopefully encourage you in this new year of two-oh-four-teen ;)
Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
~ Matthew 7:7 (NLT)
I felt, after reading this verse, that God is giving me this verse for this year. He is giving me this verse for encouragement, for determination, to trust, to seek, and to never give up. Let me tell you that there are things in my life that I just don’t really know what to do about. I feel as though I am stuck in the middle of a four way stop with four different directions to chose from (maybe more or less) and I just don’t know where to go, what to do or how to go about it. I feel as though I am in a season where I just don’t really know what to do - like a 20-something mid-life crisis (just being a touch over dramatic if you can’t tell). But this 20-something doesn’t know what to do...
"I don’t know" is actually a line I use quite a lot in order to think things through a little more or just not wanting to deal with things. But there are times where I just don’t know. When I look back, I didn’t know that I was going to end up being in Bible College, I didn’t know what it was going to be like. I knew I was going to Thailand, but I didn’t know what it was going to be like there. I didn’t know that I was going to the Yukon and I didn’t know that I was going to live in Manitoba. I didn’t know these things and I didn’t know what to expect. But the funny thing is when I didn’t know where I was going, how I was going to get there or what to expect- I did it anyway. I felt if it is where God has wanted me to go, I was obedient and just did it.
The thing is this time is that I don’t know what to do now. There are many different directions in my life but I am in the “I don’t know” season and its a season that speaks for itself. But one thing that I am learning is that if you don’t know, seek God. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will open.
There are many different opportunities for me in this new year like there were in the previous years but one thing that I am trying to learn is seek God first and be obedient to what He wants you to do. Not what your family, relatives, friends or even (dare I go there) you want to do because we have to remind ourselves that He is the one who is in control.
So I encourage you in this new year to find a verse that is challenging or a verse that God has placed on your heart and have that as #Verse2014. A verse you will see 365 days this year, a verse that you will meditate once a week or once a month, a verse that is a reminder when you are going through difficult, dry, challenging seasons. Its a challenge I am trying to live out more than three days and more than one month, to see where God really will take me in 2014. He has taken me to great lengths years past and I am super excited, scared, nervous, stoked, and willing to do what He wants me to do.
Here’s to God’s word, God’s timing, God’s leading, and seeking God! #Verse2014
