My One Word: Humble
I chose the word humility because I feel that every real issue that I struggle with comes from a lack of humility. When I sin, I want to punish myself, because I feel that I am not good enough. I find myself forgetting that the Creator of the entire universe LOVES me in spite of all of the things I have done and am going to do. And when I do something good, I often become self-righteous and I forget that I am never the giver. I am always the recipient of God’s love and His grace, and there is no way that I can ever make a sacrifice as great as the one that He made when He sent His son to die a brutal and humiliating death on a cross. I want my focus to not be on myself, but to be on loving and serving my Heavenly Father and those that He places in my path.