I just want to take a few lines to encourage all of you in your study. I know you are working hard and desiring to spend time building your relationship with God and taking it to a new level of intimacy with God. I continue to pray Hebrews 6:7 for you;
Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.
After hearing how God's word is alive and active in so many people's lives this morning in church (and knowing that God is the One who brings about any good thing in my own life) I am convinced more than ever that God wants to show off in each of our lives and grow in every one of us a great story which we are to share. And not just one great story to tell for one time but to tell after each chapter and possibly even after each paragraph. Maybe yours will be a collection of short stories or poems. Or like we heard and sang about this morning - maybe yours is a song complete with verses, chorus and bridge.
But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for Him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you - from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.
1 Peter 2:9 (Message)
Wow, heard this powerful quote this morning and it is so true and something to work towards as we are leading our lifes in Christ.
ReplyDelete"A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to SEEK HIM first to find her." Mary Angelou