Loving the young ladies......

I want you to meet the amazing group of young ladies who are studying the Word of God each Sunday Morning.   Recently they finished up a journey on the book of Ruth and enjoyed a fellowship meal together.  As someone who started studying the Bible later in life,  I wish I had done it much sooner.  I am so happy these girls are gaining Spiritual knowledge and wisdom much earlier than I did.  I know it will change their lives.  A couple of the girls were kind enough to share their insights on the Bible Study

Katie :   I realized that God is in control and with him all things are possible. I also said that I am a control freak and when thinking about my future, I wanted to be in control. I realized that if I trusted him everything would work out for the better. I also said what an amazing example Ruth was.

Elise:   The Ruth study was a great way for me to connect with other Christian girls. It amazed me how much knowledge you can receive from such a short book of the Bible; Ruth. Ruth was an amazing example of a servant.

Please Keep these beautiful young ladies in your prayers.

His Eyes

I just finished another Bible Study with a great group of ladies. 

As usual, I looked back through the study book and had such sweet feelings.  I've tried to make a pattern of carving out time after each study to look back through my notes.   It helps remind me that God -  IS -  A -  PERSON - who has been interacting with me all along. A lot of times I forget that. Yea, I frequently feel like He isn't there let alone doing anything in my life. I'm not alone in that, right?

Looking back over the pages this time has strengthened my faith in how alive God is. 
  
On one page I recalled a new insight about Him that made me understand His love even more. Another page held notes of my prayer of confession because He opened my heart to see selfishness in me.  

One particular page had me stop and remember the time spent with Him there.   It was when He asked me to go to someone "right now" and share with them about salvation.  

For several weeks before that "right now" moment I had been feeling the prompting of the Spirit but I kept rationalizing it away. 

"I don't know her well enough."

"I 'm not the right person." 

 Eventually I talked myself into not going.  I reasoned -- if I didn't go and share with the person then I was just missing a blessing and He would use someone else. Someone would get to share with her, it just wouldn't be me and I was ok with that. Sounds Biblical, right?  At least I've heard it and said it among my Christian friends.

He was teaching me through the Scriptures assigned that week,  that if He was prompting me to go and if I didn't then it was disobedience.  It wasn't about missing a blessing,  it was about not obeying what God asked me to do.  It was like an explosion in my mind and heart of some new understanding.  

 Not obeying when God asked me to go to someone was not about "me missing out".  It was about me sinning.  That was my new explosion of understanding.  

Yes,  I know the truths "when God speaks you should obey"  and "disobedience is a sin."  I have been drilling it into my kids heads forever. 

But on that day it wasn't just a truth I knew and tried to do.  His words were alive. They were coming from a real breathing person and I had looked  into His eyes and  I had said no.  

.................But  the Holy Spirit was doing His work,

and I felt shame and I felt my head bow. I was wrong and I felt a heaviness in my chest.  I couldn't look into His eyes.  

I thought of how  my "no" was prideful and self righteous. 
I thought of how my "no" exposed an ungrateful heart. 
I thought of how my "no" exposed how little I trust Him.

All I could focus on was how I had hurt Him.  

I had thought my "no" meant nothing.

He showed me what it really meant.

We spent some time together.  Me confessing, Him forgiving.

I looked into His eyes and then moved my eyes to the next question in the book.

Dear one, what will you do right this minute to get back on the righteous path of humble obedience?

I made a phone call......

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