show them the well
This morning, I began to teach through Joseph's story with the women here. Prang has started teaching the Old Testament more and encouraging the women to read in it by themselves. After all, the majority of the Bible was written before Jesus came she explained. My hope and prayer is that in reading through the stories of God and Israel, these women will see an amazingly loving and powerful God. Joseph's story is an incredible testimony of God working His good plan through the most unlikely of circumstances. His story constantly encourages me to trust in God's timing. To trust that, if we endure, we will see God's goodness even through the hardest of trials.
My hope in teaching about Joseph isn't to impart any unique knowledge. My hope is simply to guide them in reading about God's gracious plan for His people. To give them a thirst to see and understand more of our awesome God. We'll take several days to read through the story. Today we left off at a good point - thus far, Joseph has only been obedient and upright before God. Yet he's been sold into slavery, sent to prison and forgotten. What is God doing? After we finished the Bible study time for the morning, some of the women weren't leaving the table. They were avidly reading on, wondering what God will do. Prayer answered. We don't need to give people water, we just need to show them where the well is...
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Reply #1 on : Sun June 08, 2008, 15:29:15