Bibles are like yearbooks to me. It seems I have different ones for different seasons of life and last Sunday I went digging for my old plum ESV.
I was inspired by church family who shared their life verses on Sunday and it made me think of my verses. Looking through pages of old highlights and scribbles, I found those verses that had meant so much to me in past years. I decided to list them here so that I would always have them somewhere.
Isaiah 43:4
...you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you...
The friend who discipled me when I first became a believer introduced this verse to me. I clung to it, not understanding what God was doing in my life at the time and it was my life-support during that dark, difficult time. I needed to know and be reminded that God loved me and I was precious to Him.
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
This one hit me maybe after a year or so after the Isaiah verse. I was going to a different church by then and the pastor was talking about a verse that meant something to him at a very dark point in his life. This was a prayer of being satisfied in the Lord and not looking for fulfillment in empty things. Wake up every morning being satisfied in Him and be glad ALL our days.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Again, a year or so later, I had hit the point of no return where I desperately wanted to give everything to God. No more holding back. No more excuses. I wanted to live my life to honor Him, being obedient to Him. I had tried things my way, failed miserably, and was ready to turn my life over to Him completely. And so the One Year Challenge started and this was my prayer over the next part of my journey. I was seeking Him, I was curious, and I wanted answers and wisdom. And, boy, did God deliver on that.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
This one is the most recent at this point, and I mean recent, like, BAM, only from a few weeks ago. Recently I was flipping through an old journal, excavating historic parts of my life, and I found an entry at 27, focusing on what I wanted to be able to show for my life at 80, 90, at the end of my days what will I have to show for my time here? That's how I want to live my life. With an end goal of being someone who lived their life honoring God in all their ways—with their money, with their property, with their heart, with their time, with people. Whatever "with _____" is, I want it to be valuable in God's eyes. Life is only getting shorter, which means opportunities are zooming by! There's no time to waste in serving and loving others!
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