GCR Women

I remember my first management meeting at a company where I used to work.  At that meeting, the company president asked the question:  "What is the enemy of best?"  The answer?  "Good."  When we become satisfied with doing a good job, better and best are no longer our goals.  And before we know it, we're satisfied with "good enough."  This is just as true in our spiritual life as it is in the workplace. The standard has been set high for us by Jesus Christ himself.  We should never use our fractured human state as an excuse not to try to meet that standard.  Even if we never do, we must always try.  Remember what Paul wrote in Romans 6.  Grace is not license to sin, rather it should be the impetus to live godly lives.  If we can just remember what God has given to us, we will be encouraged to work more diligently to please Him.  I'm not saying that our work earns us any special points with God, but how we live should be a response - a living sacr

I am blessed to be a part of two wonderful Bible classes each week.  One class looks at the Hebrews roots of Christianity by focusing on the Torah.  The other is digging deep into the book of Proverbs.  I love them both.  Each challenges me to realign my life with God's word. For the last two Sunday nights, the Sunday morning class has spilled over into the Life Group I'm in.  We invited one of our Hebrew roots teachers to share that concept with us on Sunday nights.  Mark Dean came and showed us a glimpse of the richness to be found in linking everything we know about Messiah in the New Testament to what God wrote on the hearts of His people in the Torah and rest of the Old Testament.  Last night, he shared one of his favorite verses with us with a challenge to let it become part of our own prayers:  Psalm 119:18 (NIV)  "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law." Throughout the book of Proverbs, I am encouraged to write God's law on my heart.

Here it is October 1st already!  We have only three months left in this calendar year.  If you started off the year intending to memorize 24 verses as part of the GCR Women's Faith Words challenge and you've stayed on target, you've already posted 18 verses you're memorizing and you only have 6 verses left to complete your goal. In order to qualify for the Faith Words celebration in January, you need to post at least 20 verses for this calendar.  If you've missed one here or there, now is a good time to get caught up.  One other qualification is that you must be able to quote from memory at least 10 of the 24 verses you've posted this year.  Now is not the time to grow weary.  You can do this!  Let's finish strong. Patrice