Resolve
Every year I choose one word to sum up my focus in the upcoming year. It’s a guide toward what I want to accomplish in the days ahead.
In past years I’ve chosen words like courage, balance, and freedom.
This year I chose RESOLVE.
RESOLVE – (verb) to settle or find a solution or answer for.
At first this word made a lot of sense because I am determined to get some things dealt with this year. I have some spiritual habits I want to improve and a few sinful habits I want to eliminate. I also want to take care of some situations going on that feel like they are undone and dangling.
But then as I looked the word up in the dictionary to get a better understanding of it, I saw that the word has a second meaning.
It also means to be determined or committed to making something happen.
Reading that I realized this is actually the part of this word that I need to focus on: being committed.
The two definitions go hand-in-hand. I have to resolve or determine and commit to make things happen.
I have to resolve to resolve these issues.
While I was thinking about how it might play out this year I started praying about what my verse for the year should be.