Behold!
Jan 01, 2009I wish you all a Happy New Year, on this first day of 2009!
All throughout the Scriptures, this word ‘Behold’ is used. This word can be translated from the original languages as, “Look” or “Pay Attention” or “See!” It’s a marker of emphasis, calling people to focus or center one’s mind on what’s about to happen next.
In Genesis, God gives every herb and plant in the beautiful, perfect world to the man and woman at the beginning of the creation and says, behold.
In Exodus, God says to Moses, behold the cry of the Israelites, my people who are in slavery. Look… pay attention… see their suffering.
In Isaiah 43, God says, behold the new thing I am doing among you. In the wilderness a straight path is being marked out. Pay attention to this work I am doing.
In Matthew 1, God says, behold a virgin will conceive and you will call his name Emmanuel, God with us. He will forgive his people from their sins.
At the start of this new year I want to encourage you to behold. Look. See. Pay Attention. To what God is doing in your midst. To the good gifts he brings, to the way your cries are answered, to the way he makes for you where there was no way.
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
Jules Renard
I encourage you to make notes, physically record the ways/miracles/events/happenings as you see God work this year. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just a text document on your computer or a simple notebook where you write the ways God is working. By this time next year you can look back and read all the many ways you beheld the Almighty God at work.
This year, I encourage you and I to behold, to truly see, the amazing works of God in our world.
-Pastor Tara VinCross
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