... Somewhere HE opens another one.
You all know I've been studying the book of Deuteronomy. It hasn't been an easy time. Have you ever felt like you're being hit by continuous 2x4s of realization and guilt. Yup, that's me these last few weeks. Never any worse than yesterday during our class. Except of course for the last time God hit me with the proverbial 2x4. But enough of that... Yesterday's class was on the concluding words of Moses. The words he said to the people of Israel after God told him that THAT very day was going to be his LAST day on earth. (Beth Moore has a much better way of explaining it all... and if you ever get a chance to attend one of her Bible studies... PLEASE DO IT!!!) But there were a few things yesterday that really stood out to me...
1. In Deut 33:26 (and various other places in the Bible) it says that God is our HELP. He's our HELP. Not there to do it for us, though He could. Not there to do it without us. but there TO HELP US with whatever it is that he's called us to do! Think about it... He could do it himself... but wouldn't you rather respond to his call and do it WITH Him and earn that blessing/promise/learning for yourself? (Yup, thanks for the 2x4)
2. If God told you that it was your last day. That He would be taking you to be with Him on that very day... what would you spend it doing?!
Would you spend it apologizing to God and to the people around you?
Would you spend it doing good, hoping to get in one last blessing?
Would you spend it making sure that your children knew everything that you wanted them to... so that there was no doubt in your mind or theirs what you believe, where you'll be spending eternity, one last lesson on how to be a good citizen/neighbor?
(Again, great thanks for the 2x4.)
and 3. God protected Moses, hid him from harm.... from his birth, all the way to his burial...
no matter Moses' manly screw ups... no matter the fact that he hid when God called him, at least once... no matter that he was human and imperfect. He hid him, he protected him. always. and then carried him to his grave the way that a father carries his son. (Yup, another 2x4)
Have you ever wondered how God still loves you? are your actions not perfect? how HE still loves you even at your worst? How HE can still use imperfect ME is still a crazy concept. According to facts/figures/statistics/situations... I shouldn't have the great life that I do... I can only believe that I am still here and mostly intact with quite a few HARD life lessons learned is because God wants me, where He wants me, to do something for Him... Now, to seek Him and His will for My life.
and in other news.... that really has to do with the doors and windows...
There's been some drama on our football field... and my husband was not asked to return as a football coach for the upcoming fall season. It was a great upheaval in our life, since our ENTIRE family is involved there...
but cannot seem to find the peace in staying despite the way that we've been treated recently. The next town over offered him a position coaching within their youth football league, but we had no peace about that decision either. So, after much prayer and consideration and trying to figure out how to make things work to be where we thought God had called us too... Last night, my hubby got the call! The magical call! He was invited to come and coach at the local high school!! That means we stay here, we're still involved with football, we're still around the kids that have come to love us, and respect us, and stop by our house randomly, and ask for rides to practice, and that are the reason that we started with youth football in the first place! So, all in all, Nathan's job changed within his school district, putting him home earlier... the youth football league didn't vote him in as a coach... there was unrest in a decision to go elsewhere resulting in no commitment for the fall... and now, we see why! God was just setting things up and waiting for His own time to tell us what we were to do. and it was pretty awesome to hear the coach that called him last night say just that same thing!
So.... YAY!!! Off to work on plans for Vacation Bible School!
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