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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Random Stuff

Today was Bible Study. I only get to attend this study during the summer because of my work schedule. Participating in this study has been on the top of my "Summer To-Do List" for some time now...but then things started to disintegrate.

For the past few days, our computer has been acting weird! First, it started to refuse to print things. Then, it refused to access the Internet. This made it impossible for me to get to the notes I needed for the study. Next, I over slept. Had to forgo getting pretty...I had just enough time to wrestle up some clothes. So off I went to Bible Study...unprepared, AND ugly!!!! Then it started to rain. Hmmm..maybe a sign! Maybe ALL these things were signs...signs that I should just turn the car around and stay at home. Then came the BIG sign...I was late and I missed the turn for the church. Had to turn around on a busy street, facing an onslaught of Houston traffic. I REALLY thought I better just give up. I mean, who wants a late, ugly, unprepared woman coming to their Bible Study????

God, that's Who!!! I'm so thankful I went. Learned a lot!!! Good to fellowship with these ladies that I don't get to spend much time with. (Ewww...bad grammar!) Studying Jonah. Loved this question: "If God is sovereign, and in control of all things, and had made it very clear that Jonah was to go to Nineveh, then WHY was there a boat ready and waiting at the dock, leaving for Tarshish?"

What's YOUR answer??? It reminded me of all the times I make bad decisions based on the thought, "Well, this must be a sign!!!" Reminded today that circumstances NEVER trump what God has made clear in His Word!

Next thing I did today was began to read this book. I'm going to join an on-line study group to discuss what we read. Lysa is the founder of the She Speaks convention that I attended last summer.

And ended my day with a laugh.

A friend of ours from Mississippi put this picture on Facebook and said this is what they had to eat on the Coast since the oil spill has robbed them of their much-loved seafood!

That's it...random thoughts for June 8!

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

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--Alan Redpath

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell . . . . and when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only prescription: make a pearl . . . . And it takes faith and love to do it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a difference it makes when a trial comes, to see in it not the hand of an avenger, but the loving discipline of a father and the gentle admonition of a mother! God would not have us feel even the shadow of His anger. Judgment hardens the spirit and God never wants to break the spirit of His obedient child, but to win us by His love and transform us by the gentleness. Beloved, let us ever look upon our trials in the tender light of the Father’s love. It is not the token of His displeasure, but the very pledge of His jealous love, a love so inexorable that it will not let us miss His holiest and best.
--A. B. Simpson

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