Question…
I’m going to ask a simple question for you folks….
What is the one thing, above any other, that God is teaching you right now?
For me, it would be that I am finding out more and more about just how big God really is.
How about you?
Ready? Go.
The thing that it keeps coming back to me is love. To know that I am loved, to show love for others – and how great of a task that truly is.
The thing I’ve learned about love over the last couple of years is that it requires action. That idea has sparked some crazy big dreams in my noggin’ lately. Big, crazy, scary dreams.
God is teaching me to keep my mouth shut & listen & learn.
-John
John- How ’bout you and I both do that?
This is, I think, one of the most humbling lessons that will last a lifetime for all of us.
I’ve been learning that a friend loves at all times. Let me repeat. A friend loves AT ALL TIMES. Not only when it suits them, not only when it’s easy, not only when things are going well. A friend loves when they are hurt. A friend loves when they are angry. A friend loves when they feel misunderstood. God has loved me even though I have not always been faithful. Because of His love for me, I need to show loves to my friends.
love always trusts.
I would have to say love as well, and not just love but building healthy relationships and learning how to deal with toxic people. I took a class under the material from Townsend & Cloud titled “Safe People”. It made such a change in my life and made me see things differently in a more solid grounded biblical way. Sad these things are not focused on in the church, because i believe it is God’s heart for us to know how to love and relate to one another in a healthy way. Ive’ had 2 friends now get the book on amazon and it has and is changing their lives as I speak. I am really blown away. I am about to venture to a book I have heard is a hard pill to swallow. Titled “Bold Love’ by Dan alleander or olleander??
Anyhow..that is what I am learning right now..and living it too which makes it a lesson learned!
Man, these are some tough lessons here. I would imagine that if this question was asked in a year we’d be sharing some of the same lessons still….daily dying is sort of a big deal.
God is teaching me about his sovereignty in the midst of brokenness and wounding. It amazes me to see how in the darkest moments in someone’s life, He makes his presence known in still, small ways. It’s comforting.
This is definitely a big lesson for me right now during this season. I keep going back to, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Dangit.
I’m learning this, too!
I think God’s trying to teach me that I know nothing. Every time I think I know how to do something or what the right course of action is for something, I mess it up. Maybe saying I think he is trying to show me I know nothing is kinda of a bad way to put it, but I do think he is trying to make me realize that his ways are a lot better than mine.
I’m selfish. I’m self-serving. I’m cowardly. If I honestly look in the mirror, I can’t refute any of these things. And maybe what God is trying to teach me is that that’s okay. As long as I stop trying to deal with them myself, that is, and instead start looking to him to bring me through the times those start to dictate how I live..
Mine is that I can simply enjoy Him – that I don’t always have to be hardcore working on something, but can enjoy freedom that comes from Him BY enjoying my relationship with Him.
Jessica- a great lesson to learn for sure. I have to remember that he offers to trade burdens with him, giving us his light one for our enormous one.
Praying that you find rest in enjoying his presence…