Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of having my bible. It seemed very cheesy but the facts that filled the joy in my mind were that first, I had kept something important to me like my first non children’s bible for 10 years without it getting lost, destroyed, or stolen. Second was that I had this bible since I was 14 years old, the age where I was staging from being a child to being in the crazy teen years and soon to be adult years. And the third I had told God about in my prayer to him how amazingly cool it was to read his word out of the same bible for the last 10 years. My journey with the Lord has been crazy up and down and flipped and thru every moment that I had to open my bible, I am fortunate to have used the same one all these years.
Before coming on the race I thought about getting a new bible. I had a picture in my mind of the perfect bible that I wanted for the race. It needed to be small and lightweight, decent size print, enough room in the margins for mental notes and had to be a NLT version (I love reading the NLT version). I’ve looked everywhere and have thought about all of my dreams in my idea of the “perfect” bible for me and the race. I couldn’t find anything that matched or find anything that was really what I was looking for. But what is really needed for a “perfect” bible? Isn’t the point of the bible the words inside it? I had everything I needed in my bible, sure it was torn and the cover was peeling off, but the words in the bible are still the same. They still hold the same value as they did before. What if we had the same thought about ourselves and about our lives. Can we have better value in our lives the way that they are, a better value in ourselves?
God loves each and every one of us so much and he values each and every one of you reading this. One major thing I am learning about myself on this race is that its okay to do things different and its okay not to be exactly like everyone else. I wish my prayers sounded like theirs, I wish I had more biblical wisdom, I wish I didn’t think and just did things for the lord. But that’s not how God created me, he will push me and stretch me in areas I’m not quite comfortable, yes! But there are areas that I am learning to be okay with because God made me different for a reason and I’m learning to be okay with that and truly embracing my true value in the kingdom and with the father.
If you don’t know what your value is that then I encourage you to reach out to me, someone close you trust or even God and we can tell you and affirm that in you. If you would like to you can comment below or shoot me an email. I had no idea what I was going to write about but now I think I know that God wanted something said to someone so if you think this is for you, reach out to me and I would love to chat to you about it. If not then thanks for reading my blog, sometimes I know exactly what I want to write about and just blog about it but this was the first time I think that I have sat down and had NO CLUE what to write and just starting typing and took direction from the Lord. Thank You all for your love and support and for reading my blog you all mean the world to me and I pray every day that God blesses you all.
