plus 3 minor ones. The phase is "Speaking the Truth in Love" and the word is "Truth". The three
minor words are beauty, acceptance, and heart. The main verse for 2015 is Ephesians 4:15. It says:
“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. -NIV
I'm starting to read a book and hopefully will start talking about it to another friend but it is really an eye opener for me. It is the second time I read it but first time I have read it through God's eye. I will tell you more about it as I read and talk about it. I'm hoping to write phases from it and write what it means to me. Hopefully, you will understand where I'm coming from with this entry.
Anyways, the word "truth" hit me in Dec. after a women's Bible study. I will admit some women were sharing their testimonies and some of them just hit me the way they should. I could really relate to what they were saying. The couple testimonies that did hit me was about just being real to people about yourself and letting walls that you built around your heart come down because that is the big way God can work with you. Then I got to thinking about the minor words for this year.
Words that I can be when I let the walls down and share who I really am and get use to who I am in God. I will find beauty and acceptance in my heart of who God made me to really be. I will be more joyful and happy with the ways things are and with life. I won't be so focused on the world but on God and serving other people. The verse I found today when looking at a website and liked it because it had the word "truth" in it and it explains what I should be focused on. If I will speak the truth in love, I will be respected and mature in the body of Christ. Christ is the head of my life so I need to love and respect for Him and He will give me the wisdom that I need to get through each day.
It will be a hard process for me because I was hurt so much in high school when I tried to be the really me and it is scary but I know it is worth it in the end. I have grown up a lot and there are chances and people I don't want to miss because I could not talk. I also feel like I am getting back to the real me. The "free" and "real" me when I was a little girl. I didn't care about a thing in the world.
I would play in the mud and run, sing, and talk to myself like no one was listening. I would swing and feel free like I was flying. I lived out in the country on a farm for the first 4 years of my life and loved it. That was love. I got to run around and did't have to think or care about what people thought of me. I just lived for God and me. I should be that way again. I should share my life story the story of who I really am and what I really like and feel free while doing it. If it pleases God then why am I so scared about sharing it with people. I shouldn't be because that is who God made me to be.
As adults, we tend to lose that freedom and truth because we are so scared. We have so many people to try and please in our career, older friends, church friends, and people who lives where we move to. We also care about what other people think about our children and how we dress. There is so many things to worry about as adults that we forget how to live like a child. We keep that child like self inside where no one can see it but the people who really know us really well and for a long time. That shouldn't be it. We should show that child-like faith and truth all day, every day for the people around us. It will give them something to wonder and ask about.
This is probably the longest entry I have ever wrote or wrote in a long time. I would love to really challenge people to come with me on this "truth search". I am the person that love the deep talks and getting to know people and sometimes even if I don't share my own story, I really love to listen. I love to get together one on one or just a few people in a group because I want to get to know people and I don't want to share my story to just anyone.
I'm loved no matter what and you can be loved too. We are all the same. Broken but yet we are matter to God. That's all that matters. Who cares what other people think of us? We shouldn't. We should be for God and that is all. Let's speak the Truth in Love this year (2015)!
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