One Word for the New Year

It wasn’t my idea, so rather than trying to paraphrase an idea that someone else has already so impressively articulated, I’ll just let you read it straight from the source for yourself.

http://www.myoneresolution.com/one-word-resolution/

Have you ever made a resolution and actually stuck with it for the entire year?

Is your resolution list for this new year really any different than the one you made last year? Or for that matter, every year previous?

In an effort to live my life more consciously for God… to seek His will… to follow His lead… to walk the path He has already laid out for me… my word for 2013 is intentional. That everything I do be done with a purpose. That all I seek to accomplish this year be for the sole purpose of fulfilling what God has asked me to accomplish.

I’ve always been good at being busy. Being busy for God, even. Teaching classes, taking classes, volunteering, studying God’s Word… but sometimes I do these things just to do them. Sometimes I do them just to stay busy. Sometimes I do them because I’m afraid of missing out on an opportunity to be a part of something God may be doing. But in over-committing myself, I’m never able to fully commit myself. I spread myself thin and don’t allow myself enough margin to fully be a part of what God really does want to do in and through me.

So this year, I want to be intentional. To allow God to use me where He wants to use me. To avoid filling my schedule with stuff He may have already designated for someone else. That there would be less of me in my commitments and more of Him.

What will your word be for 2013?