As my sisters and I were sitting around the table yesterday afternoon enjoying some lunch and laughter, the topic of my not-so-exsist Friday blog came up. It has been on my mind lately that perhaps I won't be blogging about being a homemaker... I just don't know if that's God's focus for me right now. I mean, I am trying to figure out this homemaking business and my main job is caring for my kids, but I don't know that a blog about homemaking is another thing that needs to be on my plate.
Maybe you've seen it, God has been working out in me lately. A big part of that is my taking the time and effort to let Him. Another part of it has been entering this season of relative rest - not havnig a job outside the home, not being in a leadership role in a ministry through my church - but truly focusing on my relationship with God and my family. So for the time being, I'm not going to be tyring to write a blog about anything imparticular, but just whatever's on my mind, whenever it's on my mind. And we'll see where God takes us - together.
A big sigh of relief now that's of my chest and we can begin with something that God has been brewing in me.
Do you know what "Felis catus" means? How about "Canis lupus familiaris"? Good guess, they are the scientific species name for the domestic cat and dog, respectively. Notice, they're different. If I asked you in my best teacher voice to do a quick compare and contrast between these two species, you would probably come up with 10 or 15 things that they have in common and perhaps an equal number of areas where they differ. Great!
2 Corinthians 5:17 "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come." Now, I'm not a scholar of ancient language, but from my personal study it seems to be that the word creation here literally is translated as a new SPECIES. So, when we come to Christ, we are no longer Homo sapiens but a new species entirely!
But you say, "I don't feel like a new species". Often times as believers its easy to forget how much God has done for us and in us. We feel like the same old us trying to do all the God stuff too. Take heart! You are a new SPECIES. You're not the same old you, even if you don't feel different. You don't have to do it all. As a matter of fact, "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on
to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" Philippians 1:6. God began the work in you and HE will carry it out. Our job as a believer is to have faith and act in obedience.
Leviticus 22:32-33 " I am the LORD, who makes you holy and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD."
2 Corinthians 6:17 "Therefore come out from them and be separate..."
From the Old Testament to the New Testament, God has been calling his people to be separate. He has been pulling us out of the world, out of our comfort zones and Then he names us a "new species"! We are DESIGNED to be DIFFERENT. From a girl who has spent her whole life desiring to fit in, I'm finally starting understand that I'm not supposed to. So, I'm done comparing cats and dogs and expecting to not find any differences. As a being in God's new species, God calls us to act different. We might even behave in ways that seem crazy to the world. But God's been calling his people out of the world since Genesis. And it's not to make us feel bad, but it's to make us holy. it's to glorify Him - so that people might see Him in us.
Father God,
thank you for making me in your image. for calling me out of this world. Although, I don't always understand your plan - I know you are working out in me. I trust you to continue that work. Help me to live according to your WORD and not my feelings. Let me be set apart for your glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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