Thoughts for 08 and 09

Just a quick thought.... NOT thus sayeth the Lord....

2008... Year of consecration.. 8 besides meaning completion, also means consecration.

2009... Year of: another level of maturity, a year of maturity, or entering into maturity, however you want to say it.. 9 biblically meaning gestation or completion of development.. Soo, how do we get there..? The growing/taking on the "9" virtues of love in 1 Cor. 13 through accessing the grace of God..

I know 9 means more than just that, but I just wanted to give thought to what I feel is the main priority for 09.. Which is maturity.

I may go into this more a little deeper later expounding on what other meanings 9 carries and how it may pertain to this year..

How to move...

I feel there are times in my life where a culmination of thoughts, questions and emotions build internally. They build up to such point, they surface or come to the forefront of my life.. Most of the time this happens because change is coming in my life. The way I function, until I find some resolution to these internal stirrings, I usually am at a standstill. Along with the culmination of these things comes a discontentment on the inside. This is where I find myself as of the beginning of the new year. I feel there has been a big shift over me, which has caused all this stuff to come to the forefront. Soo this is where I find myself as I reflect on this Sabbath day. I sit at rest before Him and discontent to move from this posture of heart until He brings answers. I know the answers are just ahead. Until I get the answers, I don't feel I can move in a directive way in my life, for the answers to this stirring, I believe, will be the very path and bridge that will set the way for the change that the Lord has before me...