Wisdom
Tags: Adoption
Posted: January 24, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I went to the first in a series of Beth Moore bibles studies last night. This is one of her live events where she is basically doing a sermon series on the book of Proverbs. It’s called, “Wising Up” and the focus is learning how to get wisdom. Duh.
If you’ve never had the chance to do any of her studies, I encourage you to find one and get involved. Her writing is very easy to follow and it’s impossible to listen to her speak about the word of God and walk away unaffected. This woman glows with God’s love.
As I said, you can’t leave one of her “sermons” or listen to one of her DVDs without being affected – and if you can, you weren’t paying attention. There are several things that came out of last night’s session that really caught my attention:
“In any situation, if God doesn’t give you skills to succeed, then He wants to give you skills to leave!”
“God can give you insight to make decisions based on things you don’t even know.” This point is not something I didn’t know already, but it just phrased it in a way that made it easier to explain, I guess. When we had to choose whether or not to accept the placement with Carter and Gracey (which was a “maybe you’ll get to keep them” thing) or pass on the placement and wait for “Sonny and Cher” (which was a “for sure” thing). We knew we would likely be chosen for “sonny and cher” but in our hearts we knew we would accept Carter and Gracey’s placement. Our caseworker was floored by our decision, we didn’t understand it all ourselves, we just knew it was right. I believe God gave us, in that moment, His wisdom which allowed us to “make a decision based on something we did not know” – that Carter and Gracey were already chosen to be ours.