- Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl
Do you like fruit that is canned or fruit that is fresh?
For those who have both, you know that there is a distinct difference and taste to fresh fruit, and also no preservatives in most cases.
"I looked at biblical truth from afar. I ddidn't feel equipped to open it and attempt to stuidy it on my own. Instead of reading the fresh truth for myself, I only read books that talked about the Bible. Just like that canned pineapple, my experience with learning God's truth teased me that greater possibilities existed." Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl Pg. 73
I love how Lysa said,
“If people ever say that Jesus and His biblical truths don’t work, I am quick to ask how consistantly they’ve applied what they’ve read. People fail; truth never does.”
We live in a world of quick fixes.
People want it now and fast. They are too busy, in too much of a hurry to take the time. I have had people treat me, like I’ve performed a miracle, because I cook from scratch, but they don’t listen when I try to explain that it didn’t happen overnight.
It took time and persistance and I study cookbooks, watch cooking shows and really watch how the chefs cook their food, and ask questions, but more than anything, I worked on it by actually cooking.
Practice makes perfect as the saying goes, but the really true limits, is ourselves a lot of the times.
I may never cook like a famous chef, but I can still create some good and healthy meals and we taste the difference when we sample the “fast food” counterparts or grocery bought, quick meals.
It was heartening to read the story about David and Goliath, because I could remember growing up, wanting to fit in and even now, I still feel that way.
I would like to feel like I can be “part of the group”, but often I feel “different” and “overlooked”.
She, Lysa, shared, “Being overlooked and rejected by people does not equate to being overlooked and rejected by God. Often it means exactly the opposite.” (from page 77), and “Oh, how true,”. My closest and dearest friend, I feel is in Our Father in Heaven.
He doesn’t mind if I’m shy or socially awkward; He is willing to accept me and my imperfections and know that I am trying and I want to try and I am so humble that He even cares that much about me.
I don’t think I can ever fit “in”.
I still wear the wrong clothes.
I don’t say what people what me to say that pleases them.
I don’t have the right life that fits other ideals of the “right life”.
I’m a misfit still in many eyes, but I am okay that though many may or still reject me, God doesn’t and won’t.
I’m His.
I belong to God not men.
25 The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.
(Proverbs 29:25, New King James Version)
The blessings of what He has given me is that I spend time with Him. I hear Him and listen to Him. I am so humble that no matter what, HE uses me for HIS purposes not mine.
It humble me to read as Lysa shared,
“He (David) just accepted that God had led him where he was supposed to obe-the right place for right now. Whew, this is hard for me sometimes! I find myself wanting to rush things, to get past the waiting as quuickly as possible. Sometimes I forget that God is doing signficant things around me and in me, even while I am waiting.” (pg 79)
Think of the disaster that happens when instead of allowing God to do what He needs to do and doing what God tells us to do, we just give in to our emotions and our impatience and our desires and do things our way; Try to have it our way, but how WE determine is right.
Is it worth the price of needless hurting people then?
The other day, I read a devotional called “Relative Obedience” and posted about it and how King Saul, as he did with David’s older brother, decided, he knew better and rather than wait, not only for Samuel but on God, our Father, just went ahead and decided what offering to make, under the pretense for the good of all.
In the process, many people were needless hurt because of making an emotional and self-need decision and not allowing our Father in Heaven to direct him.
Look before you leap.
Patience is a virtue.
The list goes on.
David understood. He saw the bigger picure that you just don’t push things because you just want to get something. You don’t demand something, just because you want to get it.
There is greater good in….waiting.
It’s not about me.
It’s not about you.
It’s about our Father in Heaven whom we serve before all others.
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