In 2021, my predominant objective is to let love be the first motivation behind each motion, phrase and thought. I hope you’ll be a part of me on this endeavor.
Towards the start of every yr, Jenni and I spend time collectively in search of the Lord concerning the yr forward. Final week we labored via a devotional train that requested a collection of thought-provoking questions wanting again and searching ahead.
One of many questions was about habits or patterns you’d wish to see modified within the yr forward. For me, the Lord revealed a much-needed shift: I need to stay a love-driven life as a substitute of a list-driven life.
Dominated By The Listing
I’m a pushed particular person. I achieve a lot satisfaction from accomplishment, and I undergo a lot frustration once I really feel I’m not getting sufficient executed. And the reality is I by no means really feel like I’m getting sufficient executed.
Whereas there may be nothing inherently unsuitable with my task-oriented nature, I’ve come to understand that an excessive amount of of my id and self-worth is derived from whether or not I obtain all that I got down to and within the timeframe I anticipated to.
I’ve developed a behavior of getting a lot of my life and value dominated by my to-do checklist. And that’s one thing I’d like to alter in 2021.
Dominated By Love
In 2021, as a substitute of being dominated by my to-do checklist, I need to be dominated by love. God didn’t create me for what I might accomplish; he created me to like me and so I might be like to others round me.
What does it seem like to stay a life dominated by love? For me it appears like the next:
- To let love be the first motive for all that I do.
- In my relationship with Jesus, to see myself as a lover more than a worker.
- To not let offense drive my angle or selections however let love be my information.
- To let go of a have to carry out for the approval of males, however to stay in the approval of One.
- To prioritize my life round loving these whom God locations in my life. This consists of my household, pals, and people marriages he brings throughout my path.
- Most of all, I would like:
A Marriage Dominated By Love
I particularly need to see my marriage dominated by love.
What does it seem like to have a wedding dominated by love? We’ve some nice perception from the start of Paul’s chapter in Ephesians instructing us about the best way to do marriage in response to the instance of Christ and the church.
Principally what God does is love you. Go together with him and study a lifetime of love. Observe how Christ cherished us. His love was not cautious however extravagant. He didn’t love as a way to get one thing from us however to give every little thing of himself to us. Love like that.
Ephesians 5:1b-2 (MSG)
This yr, greater than ever, I need to be extravagant in my love for Jenni. I need to selflessly give myself to her, holding nothing again. I need to by no means cease discovering what love appears wish to her and to suppose, act, and communicate accordingly.
Briefly, I need to love her as Jesus loves me.
Will you be a part of me in my endeavor to let 2021 be the yr I study to stay my life dominated by love? What habits or tendencies may you’ll want to go away behind to ensure that 2021 to be a yr the place you step extra absolutely into love?
