Delight*Abide*Love

Dear Reader: Happy New Year! Woohoo! We are starting this year off right as the magazine is on time!!! My husband should be so proud. I actually started writing these at the beginning of December instead of waiting until the last minute (though I will admit that I finished the last one today, January 1, 2013).

As we dive into this New Year with all our resolutions (more readily labeled: lies) perhaps we can reconsider our reasons for making them. What is it that we really want this year? What goal have we set for ourselves? How will we achieve it and will it make a lasting impact on eternity or will it be temporal like so many of the things we do?

I told my best friend recently that the Father was messing with me and I hope that doesn’t come across as sacrilege to you, but have you ever felt like He was trying to tell you to do something that you just really did not want to do? Well, that’s where I am as I begin this New Year and new season of life. So, I’d just ask you to pray that He’d make Himself abundantly clear to me and that He’d give me the strength to do what I’m told.

Oh Father, we lift this year up to You and ask that You keep Your hand on it and us. Father, we ask that You empower us through Your Spirit to delight in, abide in and love You more than ever before. Abba, we ask that You show us mercy, grace and love in abundance and that through Your Word we be infused with a deeper desire to seek You, and obey You this year. Thank You, Daddy for all that You have done and will do this year. May we be better servants, in Jesus’ name; amen.

Peace and blessings, Ginny Mink www.delightabidelove.com