Today was the last day of a 10 week bible study with some ladies at church. It was called Esther-It's Tough Being A Woman by Beth Moore. I had done 2 other of her studies and LOVED them but this one is by far my favorite. If you ever have a chance to do this study I strongly encourage you to do it and do every single night of homework. It's so worth it. During the study I took many notes aside from my workbook so that I'd have them handy in my journal to remind me of God's providence and blessings in my life. Here are just a few of the things and or scriptures I wrote down in my journal from this study....
* Our status is infinitely higher as a servant in God's kingdom than a ruler in ours.
* Sometimes just surviving certain tasks without falling apart IS our best and in those times God is not ashamed of our performance. He's proud of us for fighting overwhelming human emotions to do His will. God isn't interested in our stellar performance but in our hearts. He loves our willingness and obedience despite our insecurities.
* There is a power that comes with wisdom and waiting. Those who WAIT upon the LORD renew their strength.
* Sometimes Christ walks through our crisis dressed in the best disguise of all: ordinary events.
* Psalm 16:5-6 "Lord, in all the chaos and crisis, all the threat and doubt, You caused my life to work out. Instead of me falling apart, the lines of my life have fallen together. Truly, I can say that You have given me a delightful inheritance."
* Try to grasp that we are the only reminder some people ever get that God lives, forgives, loves, and remains in control.
* At the end of our study there is a paragraph that says, "God never writes a story without a good ending. That includes yours." Then we had to fill our name into a blank spot in the next part...here's mine. It's so awesome and I'm so blessed to have it. I'll never forget the feeling of reading the words for the first time with my name in the story. I cried...alot.
Just imagine.
One day on the hill side of the New Jerusalem, surrounded by a crowd of glad hearers, the divine Narrator will tell the story of one woman's life. It will not be Esther's. It will not be your teacher's. It will be yours. The story will begin something like this: "Once upon a time, in the days of the great and glorious Jesus, King of the vast empire of heaven and earth, there was a little girl who thought she was forgotten. Her name was Tina but the King called her daughter. This is the story of how she won His favor."
"God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes" (Ps. 18:24, The Message).
Thank you Father for your willingness to teach...even me.
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