daytime tv has nothin on Genesis
I started the chronological reading plan not long ago, and i have to say, between the book of Job and the book of Genesis, I feel like my grandma Faye watching her "stories" when i was a kid. It was all fun and games till her shows would come on, then if any one of us kids would make a sound, open a door, talk too loud, it was "IF YOU KIDS DON'T BE QUIET IM CALLIN YOUR MOMMAS TO COME GET YOU, MY STORIES ARE ON. GET A POPSICLE!" ahh the memories.
Those books are crazy! I love them! I can't stop reading. Seeing Gods character is amazing. Learning about all those people with their crazy lives. How is is that we are so hard on ourselves? Everybody throughout history (besides Jesus) was at some point a total mess! Eve was weak and Adam told God on her. HA Iike a kid. One of their sons was a murderer, Noah started out alright, but got drunk and well just have to read that part (blaut) Abraham couldn't stop trying to pass his wife off to kings as his sister. Okay it was only twice. Jacob was a deceiver, he tricked his own brother and his own father, taking advantage of both of them. All of these stories make me realize I am being WAY to sensitive and WAY too hard on myself. My flesh is much weaker than Eve's, but today I will resist the devil. I want to gossip and cry and complain about how life isn't fair and people are ridiculous, but God knows my frustrations, He knows how I feel, but what I feel and what I KNOW are 2 totally different things, I am choosing today to speak words of life. my walk with God was completely amazing for a long time, but I make one wrong decision after another. Sin sucks, its hard to do the right thing sometimes. But, when i am weak His strength is made perfect. I choose today to resist the devil. because I am a wise woman of God and I was bought with a price, my life is not my own and for the first time in a long time, I don't give a flying flip about me. Why does that make me so happy? I think its because when we go on this journey of trying to figure out who God really is, we end up not only finding God, but ourselves. I am a wise woman of God, I have something to offer the world, right now, this morning, in my pajamas, with 3 kids yelling at me for breakfast a husband, and not enough hours in the day.
Be strong! You were held back in eternity for this time. You have a purpose thats so much bigger than you can even begin to imagine. You were not created to just get your neighbor saved! you were created to help hurting people, feed hungry people, love people. just be you, because you have some amazing characteristic of Jesus in you that nobody else in this entire earth has. So Go! log off, call someone, forgive someone, be in a good mood. (oh wait that last one was for me) Have the best day ever!
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