Every Sunday I sit in those blue pews so thankful to where the Lord has brought us! The joy that people have on their faces is so sweet, so kind, so genuine. Mike is preaching the Word and is preaching it unapologetically - so thankful for that.
This morning in Sunday School we talked about obedience. Several Old Testament stories were highlighted - one of them was The Wall of Jericho - sometimes I have a hard time reading/listening to these stories without thinking of them as cartoons - especially with this one I replay vegetables marching around a wall with no feet! We talked about how when Joshua came to the Israelites to say "ok guys - So this is the plan - we are going to walk around this wall and we will shout and it will all come down!" I can only imagine what they were thinking! But they obeyed. Sometimes we just obey!
Toward the end of the lesson, David asked if someone wanted to share about a time that they obeyed, when it was difficult to do. Well, I knew I was suppose to say something - you know, my heart pounded, my stomach got that pit feeling...
I have put our story on the World Wide Web of how the Lord took my heart towards obedience in coming to Soperton, but haven't shared it personally with too many people at the church - not because I was opposed to it, but the opportunity just hasn't been there. Well today I knew the Lord wanted me to share a portion of that with our class, and so I did. It brings my heart so much joy in telling folks of what the Lord did in bringing us here - of the joy He gave us to walk in obedience and the blessing that He has already shown us in the past two months through the folks at SBC.
A couple weeks ago in our Breaking Free Study, Beth Moore was talking about Peace and how a key ingredient in peace is submitting to authority. I was re-reading through my prayer journal of the season in coming here (I do that often - it just makes my heart joyful to see the Lord work) and I saw a common theme in many, many of the prayers was peace - asking the Lord to give us peace in this, peace that this is where He wants us, peace that we are following Him. That prayer was answered. We heard the voice of the Lord through prayer and Scripture - We obeyed that voice - And we had peace out of our obedience.
There may be days that I miss friendships and seasons of life but not a day goes by that I do not have full peace that this is where He has us - "This is the way" and we are walking in it! Praise God for that!
This is just one of many ways the boys wrestle with Mike - this may be one of their favorites!
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