My word for 2012- Hagah

I’ve never been a “pick a word for the year” kind of girl.  I’ve honestly kinda seen it as silly.  Well add this to the “things I said I’d never do, but then went back on it” list.  

I learned about this word on Jan 1.  I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law for the holidays.  Andrew drew the short stick, so he was preaching a 9am service on New Year’s day…and I learned that Hagah is a hebrew word found in the Old Testament. (nerd moment desired? check out the dictionary)  It translates into English several ways.  Here’s one:

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate (hagah) on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. – Joshua 1:8

The word also means to growl or roar like a hungry lion over his prey.  It’s an onomatopoeia.  Think Batman…Bam! Splat! Bang!  These are words that sound like their meaning.  Hagah SOUNDS like that hungry lion.  The word up Joshua 1:8, “meditate”, only captures part of its full meaning.

There is a hunger that has been growing inside of me.  And I want to be filled.  I don’t want to be satisfied with snacks or appetizers.  But…I want to stay hungry at the same time.  I know the value of “staying hungry” as an athlete, as a learner, etc.  May God grow in me, and in you, a voracious palate (read: really really hungry appetite) for Him, for His Word, and for taking Him at His Word.

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