Hi ladies! Chapter 2 has been very challenging for me. Being a woman I find it so easy to let my feelings rule. On pg. 50 it says that "we trust what we feel to be true, rather than what we know to be true." Very interesting and insightful. When I think of God loving me it is difficult to think that He would love me without doing anything for Him. I guess it goes back to my wanting approval from my earthly father and when I did something he was proud of he showed it by letting me have or do something I wanted. Praise Him, I do not need to do anything to merit His love! On pg. 53 it says, "Discomfort and unrest are impossible to souls who come to know that God is their Father." As I grow older I can relate with that more because when I was younger I worried so much about so many things. As I spend more time reading God's word and memorizing it, I am learning that I truly need to cast my cares on Him and He gives me a peace that transcends all understanding. What peace to leave everything in His capable hands! As it says on pg. 55, "obedience is the pathway to freedom." It's wonderful and scary to live in the age of "grace". Wonderful because God does not punish us the way we deserve and scary because we can continue in disobedience and not stop, because we're not punished like we deserve. We are free to choose to disobey, but that will come with consequences, as the author says on pg. 56. On pg. 58 she states that "God is not removed or detached from our problems. He uses pressures and problems to mold and shape our lives and to make us like His Son Jesus, who "learned obedience from what He suffered." Isn't it reassuring to know that God has a reason/purpose for our problems? He sees the big picture and we need to trust Him. :)
Until Chapter 3! Joan
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Choose to see what is always true instead of what happens to be true at that moment... this is the quote I am trying to live by. It made me think of some of the things that Joan said.
I am learning still that God uses our problems to mold and shape us. Sometimes I feel like hiding under a rock, but I know he would send an elephant to sit on that rock. :) In all the things that I am going through right now, I am constantly asking God to show me how he wants me to change. What a process...that will continue to go on till I pass on. I guess I always ask myself okay we can do this once, or we can keep going around the mountain. :)
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