Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2013, HE must Increase

I can't believe 2013 is already here.  I guess there is truth to the saying, 'the older you get the quicker time flies'. 2012 was full of great moments, unending blessings, and much sanctification. I am so grateful for the work the Lord did and am eager to see what this new year holds. 

As Keith and I await the arrival of our sweet Brayden, who can come any day now, I have been wondering what God may want to grow me in this year.  I know that there will be much sanctification with a little one, and yet specifically I have no idea with that will entail.  However, as I have thought about what my prayers for this year should be, they all point back to John 3:30, "He must become greater; I must become less". It seems simple enough, and yet I know it has been and will continue to be a lifelong process until I am made whole in heaven.

What this looks like practically changes with each season of life and even with each day. Making Christ great, must be my faithful pursuit.  As a wife, and a soon to be mother, I am called to be faithful, to lay down my desires and my wants so that I might meet my husband's and my son's...why? So that HE, Jesus Christ, might become greater in my life, and I might become less. 

I know that it is only through the enablement of the Spirit through the power of the Gospel that this is even possible, but my prayer is that I might excel in this pursuit, by His grace and for His glory.  May 2013 be a year where HE increases in my life.

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