8/13/08
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/proverbs/proverbs.php?chapter=2
Too proud to listen? Too lazy to review? To stubborn to submit? Too carnal to desire it fervently? Too busy to pray? Too distracted with pleasure to seek it? Then die foolish! Wisdom will not be mocked; your calamities are coming; and there will be no mercy from heaven (1:20-31). He will even remove what you think you have (Luke 8:18).
Yes. Yes. Very yes. Yes. I didn't think so, but I must be since I don't do it often enough or thorough enough. Yes. Oh boy! It makes me sick to my stomach and very very sad, and apparently not scared enough, to even begin to think about what He might take from me that I think I have. If I answered the way I did to all of those questions and I have the aforementioned fears, then WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS WRONG WITH ME? Literally! Why does the writing on the wall seem so plain and obvious and clear cut and understandable, AND YET I/we continue down the same destructive sinful paths? Damn that itsy bitsy black thing in our chests called a heart that is engulfed in sin.
With all of that said, I want to tell you that I have agreed to be a prayer partner for Answers in Genesis for 1 year. I have agreed to pray at least once a week for them and fast 1x per month. I hesitated before signing up, to afraid I couldn't keep the commitment. And that's exactly why I did sign up, so that hopefully I will approach it as a duty, a good duty, a righteous duty, a sinless duty. I was afraid to take on the Proverbs study with my sisters in Christ over a month ago because I was afraid I would fail at keeping my word. I was afraid I would let them down. However, I have discovered that is no longer the driving force behind why I do it. i do it because I enjoy it! Almost every night (when we were doing a verse per night--and now every other night) I can't wait to re-read the chapter and study the next verse. I hope I am being of some help to my sisters, but more importantly I am helping myself. (Somebody PLEASE tell my husband! I know I know, if I or someone else has to tell him, I still have a long way to go!)
Dear heavenly Father, thank you for the time I get to spend with you every day. Please help me realize I have more time to give to You. Not only are You worth every second, You have demanded more of me. Help me glorify You in all that I do. Please continue to comfort my sisters in Christ. Love them, heal their bodies as only You can, wrap Your heavenly arms around them, and continue to bless them. Amen
The 'Farm' Project
15 years ago
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I know I've really fallen down on the Proverbs study, and I apologize. I do enjoy reading what you write, and keep up with that, but not so much with the commentary right now. I printed it out, then lost it, then found it again last night, then couldn't find it again this morning. But it is more than good that you are finding the word of God to be so satisfying that you now look forward to it for its own sake! He is indeed worth all we have, all our time and treasure and our very lives. I often think about what Jim Elliott wrote, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." And pray that I can live like I believe that. God is taking you to a new level, a new challenge, with your commitment to AIG, and your faith can only grow stronger as you depend on Him.
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