Jul. 3, 2007 - What time is it?
I have gotten myself back on course and have started doing the I Am Bible Study again. Today in reading through Lesson 1, I got a bit of a reality check.
Lisa is discussing Moses and the "time" of his birth (Acts 7:17-20). The word used for time isn't the one that indicates a succession of events like the begats that we normally read. No, the word used is a word indicating a specific time, much like the seasons. It is a time that was planned. It was a time that was meant to come! In the same way, each of us has our "time". We were not just randomly placed around the Earth, we were each put in the place that the Lord wants us to be. Even though there are times when we think the world is coming down around us, we are where the Lord wants us to be. Adam and I have always found it amazing at the lengths that the Lord used to bring us together and all the many paths that would have led us away from ever meeting. His parents changed churches when he was in college. He was made to go to a college that was close to home, not the one in the mid-west that he wanted to go to. I found a job in real estate law that kept me here, not a job in French translation that I had gone to college for that would have taken me into DC. We are not even going to go into all the people that we dated that we determined were not right for us because of their lack of devotion to the Lord. What a marvelous plan He has for us!
Keeping that in mind, I started to consider what purpose the Lord had in putting me here. He obviously has plans for me. He has kept me on this path and I think I am continuing to follow the way He wants me to go, not off on my own tangent. So what am I to accomplish? Maybe I'm just a link in the chain he is forging by being a Mom to Jesse. There were lots of Moms in the links of Jesus' family chain that didn't bear mentioning, but they served the purpose the Lord had for them. I'd like to think that my purpose is something super important like finding the cure for the common cold, but maybe that's Jesse's purpose and I'm just supposed to foster that amazing creativity of his. Maybe I'm fulfilling my purpose by homeschooling Jesse. Adam and I have always felt that we have been called by the Lord to do this. It is not just a personal choice. Maybe I made a difference in someone's life that I didn't even realize like in the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Maybe by my involvement in Quota and all the services that we provide, I am fulfilling my purpose. I don't know and maybe I never will. I'll just keep on keeping on in the way that I think the Lord will have me to go. If I get off the path He planned, maybe He'll give me a shortcut to get back to the right one or use me in the way that I am going.
As you go through your day today, keep in mind how the Lord is using you. Is He whispering in your ear that you need to do something? Listen.
Hugs!
Kristi
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Posted by 3boyz
Just wanted to pop in and say hello! Thanks for taking the time to write all of that out!! It was a great reminder to me that moms are an important part of God's plan. I wrote about something similar just a few moments ago on my own blog.
