look at what God showed me in response to my email last night:
Jeremiah 12
Jeremiah is complaining about evil people prospering. He says,"Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you." I like this because he recognizes that God is righteous, and deals righteously with his people, but he still makes his complaint known and questions God. So i can fully know that God is righteous and sovereign, but i can still have complaints and questions! and i can still bring them before God: He can handle them (ie: Job).
God answers: "If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?"In this context, God is responding to wicked and treacherous people, but i think it still applies to me because i made some complaints to God: the culture is wearing me out! and God is saying, if you are growing weary in this safe YWAM environment where your race is with men (teaching a class, running with endurance with people of a different culture) how much more will you get tired when i put you somewhere unsafe, racing against spiritual battles?
He's also giving Jeremiah street smarts: stop being so trusting! use you're discernment! stop putting yourself in a position to be tricked and disappointed. He says that even Jeremiah's own household has dealt treacherously with him. God is telling me to stop putting myself in a position to be dissapointed by man, stop expecting everyone to be good, stop giving my trust where it is not due (such as, expecting people to follow through in a Western manner when I am in AFRICA! or feeling dissapointed when my students don't understand but their education level is so completely different).
then God goes on to tell Jeremiah His plan and how He will deal righteously with these people. God sees it all, He equips us to deal with all situations and people, and then He deals righteously with it.
Amen?
Amen.
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Hey there, Christina! Hope you made it home safely. i wanted to let you know that ALL of the students in your class did really well on their test. Everyone misses you!
--becka
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