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One Word 2012

I have spent most of my young adult/adult life making resolutions. I’ll spend some time on New Year’s Eve thinking about the things I need and want to change about my life and then spend about 5 minutes actually committed to it.

This year, that changes. My resolution this year is to trash resolutions. Instead, I am focusing on Christ and what He wants to change in me – focusing on the work He wants to do this year through my life.

My friend Alece has start a movement, and I don’t use that word lightly, she really has started a movement. The movement is focused on making one word the focus of what God wants to do in you this year. I have spent some time contemplating this last year and praying about what God wants from me and to do through me in 2012, and I believe God placed a word in my heart that communicates His intentions on my life.

MORE.

 

When I first heard God speak this word on my heart I was seriously conflicted. I was like, “God, you want more from me? You want me to do more?” And God cleared up my confusion with these words: “No Jason. I want more of your heart and I want you to want more of me.”

In 2012, I am committing so see how God wants to expand my heart for what His heart beats for. I want to desire more of Him in me and I’m excited to see how God brings me there in 2012!

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Living in the tension

I was talking with a friend about tension today. Tension is kinda a mixed bag.

Tension can be negative. It’s annoying. It builds up over time (sorta like I mentioned here) and distracts. Negative tension is uncomfortable because it can crush you.

Tension can also be positive. It comes when we find ourselves in the midst of a situation where we are no longer so worried about what others think. When we look less at outcomes as positive or negative, and more at who we are becoming in the process of living in the tension. When we live in the tension instead of fighting it, we become stretched and not squashed. We grow through the tension, we don’t shrink under it.

I am learning to live in the tension because that is the only way we can really live. I choose to grow, not be crushed. I want to live my life, not survive it. I mean, really, isn’t that what Jesus dreams for us?

I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
John 10:10 (MSG) 

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