Sorry but I still don't have any pictures taken yet. We are out on a "snow day" today so maybe I'll get around to it. I also have big plans to write out more thank you notes since I won't be working today.
Currently, our students won't be getting out of school until June 13th or something like that. Long time into the summer!
I'm feeling pretty good. Since the baby is head-down I'm feeling lots of little heels/feet up under my ribs alot and it just about drives me crazy! I have another cold too. That's four colds since December. That's a whole lot for me. I usually only get one cold per year or something but I guess since I'm pregnant and my immune system is down a bit, and what with being in lots of different schools working with students, I've picked up some new strain of the cold bug. Tosh is sick too with a cold.
I've heard a lot on David and Goliath this past week. Almost like God is trying to tell me something -- and I think I know what it is. David relied on God's strength and his faith in God to get him through. He didn't back down to his "giant". And right now I think my giant is having this baby! I think God is trying to say to me, "When the moment comes, don't think you can do it alone. Ask me for strength and I'll give it to you and you will succeed." I was listening to Walk in the Word with James MacDonald and he had another good point about the Bible story. Sometimes we look at the story of David and Goliath and say "God won the battle" but we fail to see what David did. In life, we tend to sit back and say "I'll let the Lord take care of this one. The Lord will fight my battles for me." And yet, if you look at David, he is the one that put on the armor (then took it off again), he picked up the 5 stones from the brook, and he marched out on that battle field and even "pulled the trigger" you could say. His faith was so strong in God that all he had to do was get to the point where God would take over and finish it. And God did. God sunk that rock into Goliath's head and he fell to the earth.
We have to be willing to go as far as we can for God and then let him finish the battle in some cases. God wants us to be active in winning battles for/with Him. At church this past week we also did "Hello David/Goodbye David" an introduction and then the death of David. And of course we are introduced to David through this same Bible Story once more. The interesting part that David Buckham brought out was that David picked up 5 stones. Why five? David's theory is that if you continue through the book of Daniel you'll see that there were 4 other giants that came from Goliath and each of them David killed. Could it be those stones were representative of those 4 other giants after Goliath was killed? I don't know. But it sure was a neat idea!
We are studying the book of James over the next series of weeks and I'm really excited about it. I love the book of James and I can't wait to see what David is going to bring out each week. I've listened to the first sermon of "Organic Church" Pastor Michael did and it sounds really great! I'm sure our friends at Lexington are being challenged right now. Isn't it wonderful that as we grow and age God still is able to prick our hearts and we continue to strive to be more like Jesus?
Something else that touched my heart this week as we were studying James was that all we need is Jesus. Sometimes we get caught up in material things and I know I hear this all the time, but I needed to hear it again. Right now I am caught up in that "We don't have a house and our house isn't selling! ACK!" Somehow inside I get this notion that if our house would just sell in Lexington and we could move into another house here, that would solve everything. I would be happy and content. But that's the wrong attitude for me to have. God says I should have joy and be satistfied that Jesus is enough. Jesus is enough. Jesus is enough for me.
It's also tying into the Beth Moore Bible Study I've been doing too on Esther. Seeing God when you can't see Him. God is all over the book of Esther but He's not mentioned *in* the book of Esther. I guess God is trying to show me that He's working on my life, our future, our house (in Lex. and here), even though I can't see Him doing it. And He wants me to realize that He is sufficient for all I need. I don't need a house to have joy. I don't need a fancy nursery to have joy in a new baby coming. I don't need all sorts of baby toys or "items" in order to be set for this child to come. I am surrounded by loving family and friends right now and God is taking care of everything. So I should be content in that and find strength in God's word.
It feels so good to be learning and studying God's word. I couldn't wait to get to church last night and hear Goodbye David. I wanted to know what happened to David and what God had in store next. I got there just in time for the sermon. I had to help Tosh with a Hunter Ed class yesterday afternoon so I was a little late to church.
I look forward to Thursday night Bible Study on Beth Moore and even though God is challenging me through this bible study and I feel my heart pricked when certain things hit home, I still can't wait to get there and learn and allow the Holy Spirit to change me and show me how I can grow in Christ. I look forward to doing my weekly 'homework' for the study because it brings out so much I never thought about before on the book of Esther. Things that you just "read over" and don't take the time to *THINK* about. It's facinating!
Well, I hope each of you have a good and blessed day today. I'm hoping we'll have a baby soon... I'm ready for him/her. :-)
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