Today I learned a lesson that went deep into my very soul. I hope I can state it in a way that it will encourage you dear reader.
I have started my new Bible Study - Breaking Free by Beth More
Day 2 of week one.
We are in Isaiah 6. The chapter starts with the words: "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord..."
Uzziah was a very young man when he ascended the throne. Beth Moore suggests he was possibly a hero-figure for the nation and for Isaiah.
I have read this passage often and it is very familiar to me. I continued on to answer the questions in the study.
Qs 1: Have you lost a hero?
Of course I have and my answer was a resounding YES!
Qs 2: If so, who was it and why was he such a hero to you?
I wept as I listed the things that he was to me - he loved the Lord, my best friend, my counsellor, my go-to, my husband, my leader, my companion, loving gracious, kind, patient, always forgiving, he loved me, I loved him, a wonderful father to the girls, provider, a good listener, caring, faithful, trustworthy, honest in his relationship with me and on and on....
Beth Moore then went on to quote Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, and I take the liberty to quote here:
"Our soul's history with God is frequently the history of the "passing of the hero." Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: in the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died - I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? Or - I saw the Lord?
It must be God first, God second and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. "
And then it hit me: "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord..."
In the year that Julius died I saw the Lord as I have never seen Him before.
In the "passing of my hero" He is drawing me to Himself. Like Isaiah I am once again saying "here I am Lord" Thank you Jesus for being the atonement for me that allows me to say "here I am" to a Holy God.
The quote ends with: "In all the world thee is none but thee, my God and there is none but thee." Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
I have started my new Bible Study - Breaking Free by Beth More
Day 2 of week one.
We are in Isaiah 6. The chapter starts with the words: "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord..."
Uzziah was a very young man when he ascended the throne. Beth Moore suggests he was possibly a hero-figure for the nation and for Isaiah.
I have read this passage often and it is very familiar to me. I continued on to answer the questions in the study.
Qs 1: Have you lost a hero?
Of course I have and my answer was a resounding YES!
Qs 2: If so, who was it and why was he such a hero to you?
I wept as I listed the things that he was to me - he loved the Lord, my best friend, my counsellor, my go-to, my husband, my leader, my companion, loving gracious, kind, patient, always forgiving, he loved me, I loved him, a wonderful father to the girls, provider, a good listener, caring, faithful, trustworthy, honest in his relationship with me and on and on....
Beth Moore then went on to quote Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, and I take the liberty to quote here:
"Our soul's history with God is frequently the history of the "passing of the hero." Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: in the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died - I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? Or - I saw the Lord?
It must be God first, God second and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. "
And then it hit me: "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord..."
In the year that Julius died I saw the Lord as I have never seen Him before.
In the "passing of my hero" He is drawing me to Himself. Like Isaiah I am once again saying "here I am Lord" Thank you Jesus for being the atonement for me that allows me to say "here I am" to a Holy God.
The quote ends with: "In all the world thee is none but thee, my God and there is none but thee." Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
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