Stuck

I'm stuck in two ways - Stuck inside because it's raining outside and stuck on a passage in 2 Samuel. I'll have to wait until Patrick comes home to help me figure that one out.

So after reading Samuel I went on to read, Disciplines of a Godly Woman, a book I got from the bookshop at our church. It really focuses on Scripture and bringing ourselves under what Scripture says. I'm only on the second chapter... did I mention I am a painfully slow reader.

I believe Christians tend to lose the importance of the Gospel in their hearts and their day-to-day living. Just like living with your spouse, after some time you just get "use" to their presence and slowly forget how much they mean to you. When they take a week long trip that's when you realize how much you miss and appreciate them. In a similar case I think we react to the scriptures that we've read or heard frequently into the "I know this one" category in our mind - whereas a new believer (as should we) finds the "wonder" in those scriptures that we take for granted.

The example given in this book is John 3:16. "For God . . . so loved . . . the world . . . that He . . . gave . . . His one . . . and only . . . Son . . . that whoever . . . believes . . . in him . . . shall not perish . . . but have eternal life." If your like me, I've memorized verse when I was younger and I tend to naturally want it to flow fast, but when I read it slowly and really let it soak in it really is an amazing thing being said!

So I hope today, that you and I will really take in what God's word is saying - and that we would see in Scripture what the Gospel is according to God's word (not a "gospel" according to our own ideas or opinions).