February journal “unboxing”
This is the “unboxing” of the January mailer with the February journal!
“So God created man in his own image...” (Genesis 1:27)
It’s two-fold: not only is God our Creator and knows every part of who we are, he also made us to bear his image. So when God asks something of us, he’s not someone random trying to make an outdated request. He is giving us something very intentional and specific.
And so he said, “...you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” (Mark 12: 30, mirroring what God said centuries before in Deuteronomy 6). His request hasn’t changed (although Jesus does add “all your mind” in the New Testament): we love God with everything.
He doesn’t need it - we need it. And when we love our Creator with our all, we are complete. So we take it one part at a time and see how we can love God - with our all.
This is what our everseeking subscribers are studying in February 2025! So let’s take a closer look at everything in the study and the mailer…
The journal
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that Jesus answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”
When Jesus was asked what the most important command of all was in this passage of Mark 12, he didn’t just say, “Love God.” He was very specific in how we love God -- with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength. And so we take it one at a time!
In each section, we see how God created us in the first place, sustains us throughout our lives, and how we then give ourselves to him. We take each page to think through Scripture and then talk to God about it.
But to start off each section, we take a look back at the story in Mark 12 - what was happening and then thinking on what it means to love God with our all.
Studying through this takes us through the main 20 days of study. As in every everseeking journal, the “main study” can be done in 20 days because we all have those moments where we get behind, so this gives a little room.
But if you’re studying every day and get to day 20 and you still have 10 more days in the month, there are 10 extra pages of the journal (called “optional pages”) that take a deeper look at what we already studied.
So whether you complete the main study with the 20 pages or the main 20 + the optional 10, you have succeeded in spending the month studying the Word of God!
Sometimes it can be hard to understand how to do something without an example. And so in the optional pages, we look at how certain people in the Bible chose to love God with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind, all their strength... and how we can do the same!
The washi tape
As always, every everseeking journal comes with it’s set of washi tape: solid and patterned!
This month’s washi tape is a variety of valentine-style pattern and a similar solid color washi tape! We use these for highlighting certain thoughts, creating tabs throughout the journal, decorating, adding extra notes (scrapbooking style), color coding, and more! For more details, check out our “How to use washi tape for Bible journaling” blog at https://www.evergreencypress.com/blog/how-to-use-washi-tape-for-bible-journaling.
Gold outlined decorative/journaling floral stickers
The next “extra” is a set of gold outlined decorative/journaling floral stickers!
These stickers are a fun way to decorate alongside our floral theme for February. These can be used in journaling and, with the waterproof material, can also be used for tumblers and other fun items!
For passport for 2025 - February sticker
And for those who joined our Everseeking Resolution for 20205 (those subscribed by December 1, 2024), we added the matching sticker to go inside our 2025 everseeking passport! We look forward to hearing your favorite verse, a takeaway and notes.
It’s our encouragement to stay strong in being everseeking of God in 2025 — our everseeking resolution!
And that’s a wrap!
And that’s a wrap for the February journal that came in the January mailer! We loved putting this one together for our subscribers.
If you are an everseeker, we would love to hear your feedback on this journal and mailer, whether on our social media posts or through email.
And if you aren’t a subscriber, we have a spot saved for you for the next available mailer, with the next journal and extras! This is only available for those who subscribe by the first of the month — so don’t miss out!
Every month is new and exclusive as a whole, so join us in being everseeking of God with consistent Bible study at evergreencypress.com/everseeking!
