You can study the Word of God for a lifetime and never unravel every nugget. While YHWH is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, we grow, we enter new seasons and different passages have new or deeper meaning to us as we do so. To boot, the Hebrew language has a lot of depth to it, layered meanings as complex and wonderful as the never ending sometimes unexplainable perfection of things like mathematics. (Spoiler alert: The same person created both. And even if you don't love math, you can't live without it.) There’s no other language like Hebrew!
On that note, did you know that every biblical-Hebrew number has a meaning associated with it? The number five is the number for grace. Five times five is 25, grace upon grace. The year 2025 is a year of grace upon grace. It’s not a sitting place. It’s a receiving place. It’s a moving forward place.
A friend earlier this year spoke on this very thing. He summed it up like this, "When YHWH reveals something, He will do it. He will give you the grace to walk it out."
This year, this 2025, I pray that you will receive grace upon grace for what was unpacked, opened, unfinished in the past (but especially in 2024) and to move forward into a new season, new spaces. Do not hide. Do not withdraw. Press in, let go, surrender to the strength available to you to receive to learn to live again. BE IN THE WORD. It is living and will be what echoes back to your heart in moments through the days when you need it most.
This is not about performance. Purpose and performance do not dance well together sustainably long term. Walking with YHWH is not a performance based relationship, even though our reward/punishment culture has made it so. True intimate relationship is about being in position and really knowing who you are. It is learning how deeply irrevocably loved you are and that you are of great value. It is about desiring and not stopping to accept all He has for you.
2 Timothy 2:1 says that we are made strong IN grace. The grace upon grace we already have received and are receiving (John 1:16).
Happy 2025- grace upon grace to you.
Blessings
Danielle & children
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