I'm Learning

I have been trying to write out what God has been teaching me lately... and it's taking a long time to organize my thoughts and get it all out. Part of the challenge is how busy the last few weeks have been and how poor my sleep has been. I just haven't had much time to try to digest what I've been learning into readable form. The other part of the challenge is that I keep seeing new things.

Today I had the opportunity to attend a women's Bible study on Mark 12:30 where Jesus Christ tells us what God desires of man.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

To love God with the totality of my being starts with my mind. Everything that comes in enters through my mind. Every sin and every triumph starts with a thought and the outcomes depends on what I do with that thought. So the leader spent two hours going through Scripture to explain how we guard our minds. It is a battle. And if we fail to gird our minds with Truth, God's truth, we will fail and we will sin.

It was a two hours of teaching that I desperately needed to hear. Which means that everything in my circumstances and in my body fought to keep me home this morning. Luke woke up 4 times and Elli woke up for the day at 3am. I was exhausted and everything in me was yelling "Go back to bed!" But by God's grace and the accountability of knowing that two friends were expecting me to go and one was riding with me, I made it. Praise God.

So I'm hoping to get everything written by the end of the weekend. I have found that if I rewrite what I'm learning, it helps me sort it out in my mind and solidify it in my memory.