After nearly a year without going, I have joined a new small group. It's fantastic... the group are all people that I love and adore, and our leaders are absolutely lovely. And that's not even the best part.
I thought that I was doing just fine reading the bible by myself, doing my own personal studies, but I'm realising that I get so much more from studying with a group, praying each week with people that care for one another, and knowing that you have follow up with one another.
We are studying the book of Ruth, a character of the bible that I truly love and respect. She was a moabite girl, her bloodline originally came from incest. She believed in her own gods, not in the Lord God. But her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law were God's people. When there was nobody but her MIL Naomi left in her married family, Ruth chose to follow Naomi home to Bethlehem, and in doing so, chose to trust in God. (Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.)
I find Ruth so very amazing. She stepped out in love, to follow her MIL to a place she had never been, a place where Moabites were scorned and hated. More than that, she stepped out in FAITH, choosing to love and follow a God that she barely knew.
My prayer this week, is that I may have the love and faith that Ruth had, that I may love and Trust the Lord with my ENTIRE heart and Soul.
For God is GOOD all the time.
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And all the time, God is good.
I am starting to feel like I need a group to study with. It's been a while for me.
Its always a good idea, I've found, Timothy... I thought I didn't need a group... but its only 3 weeks in, and I don't know what I did without them for so long!
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