In the Middle of the Drama

I just started a new Beth Moore bible study in our women's meeting at church. Everytime I spend any time with Beth I am so amazed at the gifts God has given her! But let me tell you...there is nothing like a Beth Moore study to make you feel like you are reading The Bible for Dummies while Beth has the original manuscript of The Bible: The Complete Works as Dictated to Beth Moore by The Almighty. That woman understands some scripture! If I got nothing else out of her study, I would at least see growth in my desire to be able to read, interpret, and apply scripture the way that Beth does. Amazing!

One of last week's lessons was particularly inspiring. We are studying the Exodus of the Jews in the desert with Moses. (It may just be my favorite story in the Bible....especially when you have Beth showing you how increasingly profound it is!) She recounted the part where God was with the Jews in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire at night. In Exodus chapter 14, God positioned himself between the Jews and the pursuing Egyptians as this great pillar while the Jews crossed into safety. At this, Beth said "Revel in a God whose business is to come between you and your enemies."

Awesome, right? In other words, let us be thankful, be at peace, celebrate, relax....whatever you need to do to comprehend the extreme protection that comes from our God who WILLINGLY gets between us and our enemies. Whatever we are facing, we can take it on with gusto knowing that God is already out ahead of us! You know how in all those war movies (Braveheart, The Last Samurai, The Patriot, etc) it always takes one person charging the field before the others follow? That will never be you! No matter how brave you are or how ready to fight, God will always beat you to the battlefield. Ok, that gave me goosebumps a little.

How awesome to have a God who comes between me and my enemies. Let us be encouraged and stand tall knowing our great protector and provider is ahead, beside, and behind us.

Much love!!

Nothing to Pour

Ok, so lately I have sat down to write....and nothing comes. So then I'll try to blog....nothing comes. Etc. Etc. People will ask, "so have you been writing?" And my honest answer has been "well when I sit down I just seem to go blank." And that's the sad truth. I just thought it was because I had nothing to say...

But then today God spoke to me and said, "It's not that you have nothing to say, it's that you have nothing to pour." Um.....what?

But then He spoke to my heart this simple explanation: If you never refill the pitcher, you will eventually have nothing to pour. And I had to stop and realize how little time I have spent reading my Bible lately. I could argue with Him and say "But God, all I listen to is worship music, and I go to church, etc." But the truth is that there is great power that comes from spending time in the word itself, and I have not been filling my pitcher like I should.

So just a simple thought today.....are you? I challenge you (and myself, obviously) to ask yourself that question, and then make a committed effort to spend more time with God in His word. I'm expecting amazing results!

Much love!