The Blueberry Patch

Last night in our Sunday night class, we learned about how just having knowledge about God's Word is like having a meal before you, only to have it behind glass. If we do not consume the Word and allow it to be the nutrients that change us, we have nothing. Just because we have memorized several Scripture and are ready to deal them out to those around us, if we have not let the same Scripture permeate us, we are not really fed, not really apart of that Scripture.
With this in mind as well as the Created to be his Helpmeet study, I thought about even one piece of Scripture, one verse. One verse can be as a blueberry patch.
As we drive to the patch, we have a particular experience, place, or challenge that will define our experience here. Soon we have zeroed in on the section of the blueberry patch that appeals to us today. Now we have gotten out of the car, and we can see the rows of bushes all with fruit pleasing to the eye. We have a general idea of the whole patch, yet will we pick a spot and start picking from there.
Now some people in the patch will wear gloves, they don't want to be stained by the process of picking blueberries, but they are here. Some will have their buckets and only take what they need. Still others will be like children, they will have stained fingers and faces, empty buckets but full tummies, from the delicious fruit.
We will all leave the same patch of blueberries and have different experiences. Just as we do with even a single Scripture in God's Word. Each numbered verse is like the whole patch of blueberries. We should be like the children and get messy, have the Word be so a part of us that it stains us and it's nutrients grow us. We should also realize that we are not able to know if the whole patch tastes the same. Someone else at the patch may have gotten smaller, sweeter berries. Yet another, large somewhat bitter berries.
Later, we will all visit the patch again, just as we do God's word. We may return to the familiar spot and see the Scripture in the same light, not changed by it this time. But I pray we will pick a different road to the patch, that we would see it from a different angle, that we would taste the fruit of a different bush. Because like a blueberry patch, one Scripture is full of sweet fruit, full of nutrients, and full of God.

Created to be his Helpmeet!

Yay, woot woot, yippie! And many other exclamations!

Here we go on a journey to learn more of what God desires of us as wives. I can't wait to see what God has planned! We have ladies from not yet married to blessed with grandchildren. Wow, Father has blessed me! I know I am going to learn from these ladies. We are all so different, in different places in our lives, yet we can still learn and grow! And we will be doing some of that learning and growing together!
As we talked tonight, I was thinking about studying God's Word with others. How we all see things in different light. I may see this something, she may see that something... And as we come together and talk about it, God's Word blooms like a beautiful flower. I am sure we will have a garden full before it's all said and done.
If you decide to follow along in person or here on the blog, I pray many blessings for you. Father has used this book and the truths within it to change and in some cases, save many marrieages. I pray you are one of them! Until next week when we discuss chapters 1-2 of Created to be his Helpmeet, Let the Son shine! Brandee
ps I just saw that they have an unabridged version of the book on cd and mp3 cd. How cool is that?

Wow it's been a while!

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I posted for many reasons and none of them actually good. So... After the new year...It's on! But for a teaser for next year...
On Jan 6th, I will start leading a study on the book "Created to be His Helpmeet" by Debi Pearl. I will be blogging on the subject each week, so stay tuned for that. I am praying God will show up and do what He does best.... Change lives, particularly marriages! We are so bombarded with the world's idea of what a wife should be, it will be enlightening to see what God has to say on the subject! Looking forward to it and asking you to join me in prayer!
Looking ahead,
Let the Son shine,
Brandee