So, who has been crazy busy out the wazoo?! That would be me...and probably you, too. Hence why the blog has been on hold for a while. But, alas, hopefully now I can really focus and start really using this thing, and hopefully, you will get in the routine to check it! :)
It is a commitment I made to you long ago, so I am going to keep it.
Speaking of commitments, I wanted to share something with y'all that I shared with my 2:42 group.
Girls, most of you are in a 2:42 group, and hopefully you have begun meeting. I know for some of you, you didn't even want to do a small group and your parents signed you up and now you are forced to do it, or maybe you are so busy that your brain can't stop 2 seconds to even think about 2:42, or maybe your group has changed the meeting time or day, and it seems like an inopportune time and you feel like not doing it this semester.
Here is my challenge, sweet friends, and I am so hoping you learn this lesson sooner than later, but know that 2:42 is a commitment that you made to your leader and to the Lord. I can P-R-O-M-I-S-E you that time spent in God's word is N-E-V-E-R time wasted. Ever. Ever. Ever. I know you may think you are waisting time and that you could be doing something more productive, but do you not realize that HIS WORD is EVERYTHING?! That HE is everything. That when you are solid in Him and His Word everything else falls into place. Sisters, he wants you to bring Him every worry, stress, fear, doubt and whatever else you may think is more important, or should take the place of him.
Take a look at Isaiah 55, out of The Message. His Word will NEVER return empty.
"Hey there! All who are thirsty, come to the water! Are you penniless? Come anyway—buy and eat! Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk. Buy without money—everything's free! Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard-earned cash on cotton candy? Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best, fill yourself with only the finest. Pay attention, come close now, listen carefully to my life-giving, life-nourishing words. I'm making a lasting covenant commitment with you, the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love. I set him up as a witness to the nations, made him a prince and leader of the nations, And now I'm doing it to you: You'll summon nations you've never heard of, and nations who've never heard of you will come running to you Because of me, your God, because The Holy of Israel has honored you."
"Seek God while he's here to be found, pray to him while he's close at hand. Let the wicked abandon their way of life and the evil their way of thinking. Let them come back to God, who is merciful, come back to our God, who is lavish with forgiveness. "
"I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree. "For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think. Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them. " Isaiah 55: 1-11
Girls, did you see that? He is making a commitment with us. WITH US! I feel that it is so important that we make a commitment to HIM. And boy oh boy is HE MORE than worthy of our commitment. He's more worthy than anything else will EVER be. Even your future husband, which is so far away.
I do realize that you may not be able to attend every meeting, or do all your bible study homework. I do realize that you have made other commitments, also, that are very important to you and your family. I do realize that you will not live a perfectly committed life to Him here on earth, none of us will. But, please know that your commitment to church, to 2:42 will never be waisted. It will only be used for good.
So, I challenge you, when you feel like you have no more time left in the world and don't fell AT ALL like going to 2:42, or anything church related, that's all the more reason to GO! Satan wants you to think you have no more time. Don't believe that lie. The Lord will bless you for your commitment and for going. You may not realize that now, but down the road you will be so very thankful. Because remember, The Word will never return empty. You will always get something in return.
He is up to something heavenly, that is so much bigger than you, it is huge.
So as the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center always says...
Commit for life!
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