The Word of the Year — Inspire

The word of the year…

This is something that I have never really done before but the Bible study I started attending and taking part in challenged all members to pray about a word for the year.

Initially, my word was compassion. I’ve been struggling to displaying compassion towards people who are knowingly disrespectful due to self-indulgence or ego.

It’s like, I assume those people know they could be more considerate and respectful of others. And maybe they don’t know that; maybe people who are bothering me in that way simply aren’t aware.

After sharing that word and the reasoning behind it with my Monday Bible study group, David suggested the word inspire may be more fitting for me.

So our leader Brandon challenged me to spend the upcoming week in prayer about my word and see what God put on my heart.

By the next week I was much more confident in my word for 2020. This time however, the word I presented was inspire.

I know what needs to be done to improve the consideration that we have towards others and the respect that we show to people. There are many many things. But what I realized and what others helped reveal to me, is that some people just don’t know how to be considerate or what benefit that provides to them.