I cannot believe that I am writing this and it is already the second month of 2022. One month down and eleven still to go. At the beginning of this year I felt the Lord lay a word on my heart. REDISCOVER. I wondered how much of that I have been actively doing this past month.
I am not sure about you, but last year was not a great one for me. I lost my best friend, my husband, and in turn it felt as if I lost myself. It felt as though I lost a huge chunk of myself.
This year, I am on a journey to rediscover who I am. What I like and dislike, what matters most to me and what I actually want to do with my life at 31. Looking back, I suppose I should have it already figured out, but I am hopeful and excited to learn more about who I am this year. Not only who I am but who I am as a daughter of the most high. When mentioning my word: rediscover to a friend at the beginning of this year, she said to me that it’s incredible because I am not discovering anything new but I am just learning again what I already knew.
I often feel that I have to accomplish tasks and tick off boxes to feel good and feel like I have succeeded. I am slowly being reminded that it is not my works that count, but it truly is my heart and the condition that it is in. If I accomplish nothing in the natural this year, no work achievements or successes but I can look back at the end of the year and say that I spent more time with Jesus, I have succeeded. If I can say that I have rediscovered my passion and who I am in Christ then I have succeeded. To the outside world that may not look like much but I am sure Heaven is celebrating every time a child of God is in worship, in the Word, in prayer or in His presence.
I am reminded of the story of Mary and Martha and often I tend to be a Martha. Always busy and always volunteering to help wherever I can, because being busy and accomplishing tasks makes me feel good, important and valuable. I need to remind myself that I need to be a Mary sometimes, sitting and resting in God’s presence more. And I need to make sure that I am not too busy with everything else that I neglect the most important thing in this life and the next, which is our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to encourage you today, this week and even this month to ask God what is His word for you in this season or for 2022. How can you make a success of this year? I also want to encourage you if you have a vision, a dream or a word for this year that you don’t leave it on the shelf. Write it down, stick it on your fridge and be reminded of that word everyday so that you can activate the word in your life. How can I expect to rediscover who I am by just sitting around, watching series? I need to be intentional and make time to try out new things to see if I enjoy them and I need to spend time reading the Word to rediscover who God is to me.
I don’t know your word or how you have stepped in to 2022, but I can say that no matter what position you are in or circumstance you are facing, no matter how big or small your dreams are, God looks at your heart. Make sure above all else that you feed into your relationship with God this year, that you read more, soak more, listen more to teachings or podcasts etc. so that at the end of the year you can boldly say, with God-confidence, that you are a beautiful and precious child of God. You are God’s masterpiece, you were perfectly created for such a time as this, you belong here, you are loved, you matter and you are VICTORIOUS!
When we are feeding our hearts and minds with Godly thoughts, it will spill over to how we talk, interact with others, work and go about our everyday lives. We will begin to operate from a heavenly perspective and not an earthly perspective, I don’t know about you but that makes me excited! In my blog last week I spoke about how God is limitless and how I should dream big. How incredible would it be to dream with the God of the impossible and not only dream it but walk in it!
Maybe you need a little perspective shift today and I pray that He will make provision in every area of your life. I pray that He would ignite the fire inside of you to seek Him more and that your heart and mind will be filled with heavenly thoughts and perspectives. Don’t forget to take some time in this busy world to be a Mary, and not a Martha.
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:38-42