Wow! I can’t wait to read the rest of Chapter 6 tonight. These “Remembers” are so good. The section on “God Took Him There” was especially good to me. And these specific ones:
- God is patient with us because He is so determined to bless us, just as He was determined to bless Job
- To be carried by God is the only way anyone ever gets to the “secret place of the Most High”
- None of us who have God’s kind of life have it because wewanted it; we have it because He wanted us
- God had to create in us a hunger for His kind of life, and when He did that, we fell on our knees and sought Him for the relief from ourselves that His Spirit brings (this is so good to think about!!!)
That last one made me stop and remember when God began to create that hunger in my young, 29-year-old self. I was hungry, even though I had no idea where or how to begin seeking Him. The only thing I thought to do was read my Bible, so I began in Genesis and planned to read straight through. (We just take our little baby steps and Jesus will meet us there:)
Around that same time, I was at Mama’s house one Sunday afternoon and “happened” to pick up a Davidson County Community College flier and saw your Old Testament class was being offered. Something inside of me felt excited! I had no idea what the class would involve or anything about its teacher, but I knew I wanted to sign up. Leading up to the class, however, several people thwarted my excitement by telling me how boring “religion” classes had been for them. As I was walking out the door for the first night of class, I felt a little apprehensive about going. Looking back at my two young girls sitting with Robert on the couch, I remember telling him, “I’m gonna go for this first class, but if this turns out to be some lofty, religious professor who just likes to hear himself talk, I’m not going back”. (So little did I know!)
I’ll never ever forget that first class. It was unlike any class I’d ever had before. I could just sense how much you loved the Old Testament and teaching this class, and it made me excited and eager to learn it, too!
You gave us our maps and the list of people and places we needed to pay attention to as we read. You talked about those Old Testament characters like they were family, and you made their stories come to life. And as we continued through the class, those characters began to feel like family to me, too! I have never been so excited about a class; ever! For our first class we lacked the twelve students required to continue the class, so you urged us to go home and tell our friends and family about the class. I went straight home and called anyone I thought might be interested and invited them all to come with me to the next class. Mama was the only one who accepted my invitation, and she joined the class for a short while.
I followed you from the community college to Psalm 91, to Billy H.’s basement, to your Lexington house, and finally to Elderwood Lane in Burlington. God had created in me a hunger for His kind of life! I’m so thankful for that this morning, I can hardly keep typing! God wanted ME!
And it wasn’t long after that, I “fell on my knees and sought Him for that relief from myself”! And oh what a sweet relief I feel, to this very moment, every time He comes!
Still following :),
Lee Ann
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