These last few chapters read like a soap opera! Drama drama drama...Battle scenes, kidnapping, rescue missions, adultery, abuse, and unwed mothers. Most, if not all, of the drama in Chapters 15-16 stems from lack of faith in God's timing and trusting in His plan.
I hate waiting. It's frustrating, and when I have to wait too long I will, more often than not, take matters into my own hands. There's quite a few things...spiritually speaking...that I am waiting for. It's hard to maintain trust in God's plans, to remember that He who has started a good work in me will see it through to completion (Phil 1:6).
I am thankful that I don't have to wait for visions, or to sacrifice animals and wait for fire and smoke to prove to me that God is there. I am thankful that I have my Bible, and that God has given me eyes to see and ears to hear His Word, like what we are reading now...which shows me that God's plans always take into account my mistakes.
We come from a "I hate waiting" family, Hollie. I also am completely comfortable trusting God's plan. I know through and through that His plan is light years superior to mine. In fact, His plan brings to fruition things I didn't even have the confidence to dream about!
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I once had a dream where Jesus was leading me through a dark, maze-like building. (In fact, He waited patiently outside a bar, while I took a "break".) Aside from the bar detour, I had no trouble following Him but I kept pushing on His back (hurry! hurry!)and peeking over His shoulder. Duh me
Neat/interesting dream donna! Side note...from yesterday's reading was anyone else annoyed w/ Abraham asking about sparing the righteous people over and over and over? C'mon Abraham there is a pattern developing I think you can figure out where God was going w/ this, right? ha ha. JF
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