Well, last night was my last Stepping Up Bible Study meeting and I left with such a sense of change in my heart and soul! If you've never seen Beth Moore speak, she will infuse such a passion and enthusiasm inside you. She is full of such energy and the Lord's words just flow through her!

The most important things I took home from last night was the quote "We don't have to see eye to eye to walk hand in hand." Yes, we are always going to have issues we disagree on, rib issues as Beth puts it. All of us brothers and sisters in Christ have accepted God's salvation but it takes a different amount of time for us to be sanctified and we are all called to change different things at different times. Just because I am at such and such a point in my spirtual life and so and so isn't, I have learned they may have other areas together that I don't. Did that make sense? It did in my mind anyway .

She says in the study book "God's faithfulness then calls for man's gratefulness!" We are not to wait for good things to happen to praise the Lord! Perhaps the most important time for us to praise the Lord is when we're down and burdened and heavy-laden! He will always be faithful to us! It is we who are not always faithful to him!

The overall message from this study is that we are all on a pilgrimage. We, who are saved by God's grace and living our lives to glorify Him, are all pilgrims on our journey to Heaven or Mount Zion if you will. Just as the Israelites were pilgrims on their journies to Jerusalem several times a year for religious celebrations. We are on our journey to a religious celebration of outstanding proportions!

Thank you Lord for opening my eyes in this study and I pray the changes in my soul only intensify and turn into more and more changes to glorify You!