2024 Scrapbook Memories

This is the biggest lesson I learned that truly transformed me in 2024:

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

I was at a super low point this year, letting my flesh win and my stubborn heart refuse to accept the voice of the Lord. I harbored so much bitterness toward certain people and was honestly just a rude little gal who needed some chastening from the Lord.

In a moment of wailing in my thoughts—selfishly thinking about how I was going to do my own thing, decide where I was going, and being too offended by the Lord to even talk to Him—I suddenly heard the Holy Spirit say, “Why are you grieving me?”

I immediately knew that was Scripture, so I looked up the whole passage:
“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”
—Ephesians 4:30-32

This Scripture, not going to lie, saved me from myself. It led me to call up family members, apologize to them, and forgive them. It reminded me how much I need the Holy Spirit and that I must never neglect Him.

After this, I prayed and told the Lord: I do not want my life to ever look like this again, where I am the leader—because I only end up back in the same place I don’t want to be. Continue to cleanse me and make me more like You for the rest of 2024, and of course, forever.

“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
—Mark 14:38
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