Good Morning Family & Friends! We had what I would call an "off" day yesterday around here. It started out with good intentions, things just kept going down hill though. Praying for a better day and another day to praise His name!
Dd has been doing really well with her FAR studies. This week she has been chronicling the lives of women in the Old Testament. She is studying about different women in different books and how they served God. How were they faithful to God? What were their daily activities like? What was it about them that made God pen their names in His word?
All of these women showed such strength and courage in following God. Obedience was the main theme in these women's lives. I pray that can be said of my life and that of my daughters. That is what I strive daily to teach my children. (oh, how satan loves to trip me up though.)
I did not grow up in a Christian home. I was about as heathen as a person can be without Christ. I was saved about 15 years ago. So everything that I have learned in the past 15 years and (more even recently) has been sort of "trial & error" where it concerns my children. It's like what my Pastor said the other morning. He said that when we are saved, we still have some really bad habits in our lives that need to be changed. Ways of thinking that are contrary to God's word (thinking like the world) that needs to be brought under the authority of Christ.
I said that to say this. Bringing every thought captive to The Word of God WILL change your life! It has mine and I am so thankful that The Lord has shown me this. It affects every aspect of your life and how you do things. From the places I go, to the education my children receive. That's the point I am trying to make here.
Whenever a decision is made in the life of my children, I have to look to The Word of God and see what it says. What does it say about men,women,mothers,daughters,sons, fathers? What does it say about the way I dress? The way I worship? The way I educate my children? So much to consider and so much to learn.
What I have also learned lately more than anything is that TOTALLY leaning on Christ and using the Bible as your guide will make you an object of ridicule and scorn for the choices you are making. ALL because you choose to serve God and NOT man.
Father please give me strength when those trials come and help me to remember that no matter what, you are in control. I also need to remember that when those trials come, you are the one letting them come. For your glory and honor.
To God be the glory, now and forever! Amen!
Bless all who pass this way!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7