For complete honesty's sake, I have to say that I'm afraid what I am about to write here is a bit lame. I read a whole bunch of blogs. Two pastors whose words I have come to love reading have recently posted about naming their years. The concept is that you give yourself a clear direction and vision for the year, based on what you feel like God is doing/saying to you. One named 2010 "the year of strong foundations", and the other "the year of strategic preparation".
I tend to have an aversion to goals. I don't know why. Maybe it's my own strange take on a fear of commitment. But I read these blogs and thought "never". Tonight, suddenly, God changed my mind.
He said, "This, 2010, is your year of purification."
This is kind of based off of this blog by Mark Batterson, which I read a few weeks ago.
I feel Him saying that this year is going to be a launching pad for the rest of my life (I'm not entirely sure what that means). For that reason, I desperately need Him to purify my heart, mind, thoughts, actions, and motives.
The promise I'm standing on is this:
"being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
~Philippians 1:6
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