I think back about the things I said and the things others said about 2020, at the very start before we had a chance to experience it. Of course we all focused on vision: perfect vision, seeing into the new year with new eyes, etc. Well, no one saw a pandemic coming! Even if we had perfect vision and could have seen it, how could we have prepared?
We couldn’t.
In a basic observation the difference in 2020 and 2021 is just one little 1. That started me thinking. I thought about God being the One True God and I am one with my Father. I am in the one everlasting family. I am number one in God’s eyes (so are you). There is one way to God and that is through Jesus. When we seek Him first, He will provide for us what we need.
I started to realize that I need to trust Him one day at a time…oops one hour at a time…well, really one moment at a time…or maybe one breath at a time – that’s what we have. This moment, this breath.
How will I spend it? Fear, anger, anxiety, and alone? Or peace, joy, contentment, trusting, loving, and caring? As a believer, I have The One true source of Life living inside me. I can choose to listen to the single small voice of God or I can listen the thousands of voices clambering at me from inside my head and from others.
I can depend on the One who knows me best and has the best for me OR I can depend on the many who think they know what is best for me.
I can seek the One who loved me and gave up His life for me OR I can seek out others to treat me in a way that will make me feel loved, accepted, valued (respected) and safe.
I can receive from the One who has given me every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies OR I can receive abuse and negativity from others so that I am overwhelmed with life.
I can trust in the One who goes before me and will not leave OR I can trust that my happiness depends on others.
I am going to choose as my one vision for the new year my Creator, my Papa, my Friend, my Redeemer, my Comforter, Guide - One breathe, One step, One decision, One word at a time. His Name is I Am. He is in this one moment and He will be in the next one moment with me...always and forever.
Join me in this, won’t you?
1 Timothy 2:5; Revelation 1:8; Ephesians 4:5; John 17:3; John 14:6; John 5:19,30; Jeremiah 29:11; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 1:3; Hebrews 13:8; Psalm 40:4,5; Proverbs 3:5,6; Colossians 3:2; Proverbs 18:24, John 14:26,27; John 16:33