Reblogged from "girltalk" a blog by Carolyn Mahaney
by Nicole Whitacre
Each year we make New Year's resolutions for things we want to
change, but we also have New Year's hopes for things we can't change,
but wish we could. We long to receive certain desires of our heart that
seem elusively out of reach. And maybe, just maybe, we will see those
hopes fulfilled this year.
When I was single, I hoped for a husband. Maybe this year, he will
come. I imagined myself married by the following New Year, or at least
engaged. Maybe the New Year was holding my future husband in the wings.
God eventually gave me an amazing husband, but new hopes still sprang up
with each New Year's Day. When we lived in a teeny apartment, I wanted
to move to a bigger place. When I experienced secondary infertility, I
wanted to have another child. Maybe this year.
I'm sure you have hopes for this year. They are probably whatever you are thinking about right now. But in her book, Keep A Quiet Heart, Elisabeth Elliot encourages us to focus on the most important of New Year's hopes:
“Will the young woman find a mate? Will the couple have a child?
Maybe this year will be the year of desire fulfilled. Perhaps, on the
other hand, it will be the year of desire radically transformed, the
year of finding, as we have perhaps not yet truly found, Christ to be
the All-Sufficient One, Christ the ‘deep sweet well of Love’” (page 49,
emphasis mine).
This year, let us ask God to dissolve all our hopes (however good
they may be!) into a single hope: to know Christ and to be found in Him.
May this be a year of desire radically transformed, a deeper, truer,
knowing of Christ as our All-Sufficient One.
“But whatever
gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count
everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:7-8a).
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