Uh...is that what the Recipe calls for?

I AM going to continue our journey...but first let's think about this:

Who you are in relationship to God is MORE important than where you go or what you do. In fact, where you go and what you do should be the ongoing outcome or consequence of WHO you are in God.  You may be in the place He wants you to be, but if you don't keep growing closer to Him, and if you try doing things (even good things) on your own, He can't use you half as well, and YOU lose out!

Let's suppose I'm making a cake. I find I don't have baking powder. I ask my husband to go buy me some. He comes home with a lovely...pound of prime steak. Now, there's nothing wrong with him bringing me a good steak, IN ITSELF, right?  But that's NOT what I need for the cake. It would taste weird and wouldn't rise!

Things we do ourselves may be very noble, in and of themselves. Good works are great! But is each one necessarily what God is calling for in a particular "recipe"? The closer we are to Him, the better we will be able to follow each "recipe" He asks us to prepare, to make sure the right ingredients are included!

Remember: He puts you in places, jobs, ministries, work, etc. for more than one reason. Yes, He has work to do through you. But He also will use that work to shape you, teach you, help you grow, draw you closer to Himself. This relationship is the most essential ingredient of all His "recipes". (We tend to put the emphasis on the wrong part of the equation!)


                                  Seek Ye First

    Our searching selves look 'round to see the why, the when, the how;
    what else to plan in daily toil, where else to set our plow.
                  We ponder, listen, figure, fret, and hope to steer aright.
                  Uncertainty breeds shaky ground, distracts our hand, our sight...

                                    and we forget...

    that learning Who God is, His Kingdom opening heart-to-heart,
    where spirit, soul and mind embrace, that's where our steps should start.
                   Then He can take all other things and guide them into place.
                   (In fact, He loves to do it while we're looking at His Face!)

    SO...I lift my eyes unto the hills to seek You, Lord of Power.
    My hands reach out to cling to You, unmoving Rock, Strong Tower.
                     You may not always let me know how come, how soon, how far.
                     But You'll always have the grace to show me more of Who You are.
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                             -Becky Rhon
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Now, where were we? (Go back to the previous post if you need to remember what the "fleece" was.) The answer from the seminary. Well, our application was refused, and it WAS for a really illogical reason! It made no sense to us, anyway. It was a vague, wandering "explanation" that had to do with the fact that we wouldn't have a car! What that has to do with studying, I don't know, but God certainly answered our fleece very specifically!

Around this time, I started attending a women's Bible study in English, and got to know some of the missionaries here. It was there that we heard of another option for our future...which I'll tell you about next time.  See you then!