I had a crazy experience at the beginning of April that kicked my butt in to what I had always said I was going to do....to get involved at church. I have been going to a church my whole life but the last few months I have learned more than the first 27 years of church attendance. I have been attending a connect group every other week with some people from church and I really look forward to those meetings, great people, laughs and growing in faith. We recently started to follow John Bevere and his "Honor's Reward" series/book.
The book is based on this verse: "Look to yourself, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward". It's so easy to go through our everyday lives dwelling on what we don't have verses focusing on what we do have. Someone in my group put it so clearly "It's like our own parent handing us a gift and in response we are like it's nice, but I really want something else more" kicking a gift horse in the mouth. I find myself doing these sort of things daily. I have always strived for the best but forget that I have been truly blessed in the "middle" on my way to the top too. When things are going great in life it's easy to forget who got you there and when things are going bad that's when we ask God why.
I am SO thankful that, that experience happened a little over a month ago because I have made so many changes in my life already and I am so excited about what the future has in store!!
More on John Bevere to come!
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