It’s time for us to finish up! I am so grateful for your partnership through this journey. You were such a big part of the inspiration to write it (not because you’re insecure or anything… but because I knew I’d have a little company if I went public). When it came out, reading it together seemed only fitting. Thank you for your willingness to enter in. As for the rest of you, I can only imagine that you will be relieved to have this hog off the blog and I equally thank you for your patience.
Let me say quickly before we get to the final set of instructions, I loved reading about your life passions last week! One of my favorite sets of comments from this journey! (And, separate from SLI, your testimonies of receiving Christ impacted my whole Easter weekend. Superb. I felt that God delighted in it and that, Sweet Thing, is my favorite feeling.)
This week’s assignment? Finish this baby up! Please read Chapters 17 and 18 and answer the following questions:
1. Based on Chapter 17, on a scale of 1 to 10 (one-almost none, ten-over the top), how big a part has fear played in your life? After responding with your approximation, please share what, if anything, in the chapter resonated with you.
2. Reflect over the journey as a whole. What (again, if anything) lasting and of God will you take away from it?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ladies. You are a great joy to me. May the God of peace sanctify us through and through – spirit, soul, and body – until we are wholly overtaken by Him. (1 Thess. 5:23) This alone will be the essence of wholeness.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1) To be honest, I would say that fear has played a pretty major role in my life: fear that no one would like me, fear that I wasn’t good enough, or smart enough to please my parents, fear that I needed to be better so God would love me. I think it all boils down to a fear of rejection. I feel like I’ve made progress in most of those areas as I’ve gotten older.
ReplyDeleteHowever, a bout with breast cancer four years ago put a whole new level of fear in my life. The journey through it was scary, but I felt the prayers of my friends and family and felt God’s hand on my life in a way I never had before. The trouble is, now that I’m four years out of the diagnosis, and three years removed from treatment, I really battle a fear of recurrence or a diagnosis of new and different cancer. I fear that my daughter who did radiation with me, in my womb during the 2nd trimester hidden by a 2000 lb. lead shield, will come down with some kind of cancer diagnosis as a result. And the thing is, I KNOW first hand that God was with me the 1st time around, and that He will be if it happens again. I think I mostly fear a situation in which my children grow up without me. Statistically I have a greater chance of dying in a car wreck than dying from breast cancer at this point in the game. I’m really trying to just TRUST GOD. I’m making progress and have gotten to the point that every time I feel a weird ache or pain, I don’t automatically panic that it’s cancer. I try to focus on Philippians 4:8 when my mind starts to play out scenarios that most likely won’t happen.
2)I think the idea of choosing what I think, and what I will allow to be my focal point is really life changing. I can choose to berate myself and my achilles heels, or I can focus on Christ’s sufficency, and God’s grace: 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 10:4,5.