Beloved, from your perspective, this past year may be viewed as a bit of a “flop.” A year of failures, losses, and disappointments.
Yet if you were to view the year through My eyes, the year would look very different.
I recognize that there have been times of pain, discouragement, and surprise. Don’t, however, dismiss what has been built within you over these past days, weeks, and months. Old things have been pulled away and new things have been seeded.
Will you take a moment to celebrate this progress with Me?
Allow Me to show you areas where you have flourished; the places where growth and maturity have increased; where character has been forged.
Such things are to be celebrated!
Will you take a moment with Me today to see your year through My eyes and celebrate what we have achieved together?
Activation: Take a moment to quiet yourself and be still with the Lord. Then, ask Him to show you a picture of yourself at the beginning of this year. What do you notice about yourself? Then, ask Him to show you a picture of yourself at the end of this year. What differences do you see? Ask the Lord what He is celebrating about you? What growth do you see? Take some time to journal and reflect upon what He shows you.
27 The Lord is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy].
Bind the festival sacrifices with [a]cords to the horns of the altar.28 You are my God, and I give thanks to You;
[You are] my God, I extol You.Psalm 118:27-28 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] Psalm 118:27 Lit branches. In Jewish tradition this is interpreted as a ritual for the Feast of Booths. The term “festival” is understood as a reference to the lulav, several branches bound together and later placed against the altar so that they reach to the top of the horns and bend over the altar.
Results of Justification
1 Therefore, since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).
2 Through Him we also have access by faith into this [remarkable state of] grace in which we [firmly and safely and securely] stand. Let us rejoice in our [a]hope and the confident assurance of [experiencing and enjoying] the glory of [our great] God [the manifestation of His excellence and power].
3 And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance;
4 and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].
5 Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us, because God’s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:1-5 (AMP)
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Unapologetically Marcia 