Thoughts Late at Night

Okay, so I was up really late the other night and sat down to try to settle some of the thoughts gong through my head. They ranged from the tower of Babel to wedding cakes. Yeah it was LATE!

Chapter 1 - The tower of Babel
I really haven't had the time to dwell on this and study it but I wanted to write it down so that it would stay fresh on my mind. Here is the question though: It is possible that when God scattered the language at the Tower of Babel that He also caused men and women to communicate differently. I mean come on - in the garden of Eden there was a perfect relationship between man and woman. That has to mean that the communication between them was perfect right? And I don't remember anything about communication being said when God caused the man to have to labor all his life and the woman great pain in child birth. Do you? This is why I want to go back and look into a little deeper. I just couldn't find my bible at 12:30 last night and my husband was asleep with the kids which meant I couldn't get online to BibleGateway.com either. So that study will have to come later.

Feb. 12. 08
Okay So i did go look all of it up and studied it a little more. This is what I have come to discover: when Adam and Eve fell God placed Adam over Eve. Not in a "position" to say that man was better than women. It was a wives be submissive to your husbands and husbands love your wives the way Christ loved the church kind of way. Spiritually they were on the same level but this still had to play a psycological part in their communication. However, the Tower of Babel is the first instance where God seperated language. I still believe He was speaking to the division of man and woman here as well. And when we look at it that way there is something else we have to consider.

If man and women will try to work together and listen to each other "there is nothing we can not accomplish". Afterall, that is why God split the language anyway. Right? So the lesson is this: Women and men may speak the same langugae but we speak differently. Lets come together knowing this and let God be the interpreter. Men - you can't just talk to your wife like you do your buddies. Women - men sometimes don't want to know if your shoes match your bag. And on a serious level - You have to let God show you the heart of your spouse and reveal their language to you.

Chapter 2 - Weaknesses and Strengths
I was praying last night for my marriage and God spoke this phrase into my heart:

Without confessed weakness in one there can not be a glorified strength in another.

Okay, pause for a minute let that settle into your spirit - Good huh? ya know, it really applies to any relationship. In our relationship with God He cannot move in His strengths until we confess our weaknesses to Him. you know all the scriptures: "Come to me you broken hearted I will give you rest." "Ask and you shall receive" "God gives grace to the humble" yadda yadda... In our marriages the woman can not expect her husband to fill a void and show his strength if is she herself is trying to fill the void to prove that she is good enough for him to love.

We need to take back our weaknesses from the enemy and claim them as our own. When we can do that and give them back to God we are reclaiming them for His glory. Too often the enemy uses our weaknesses to say something like this: "You're not good enough to be loved. Do you see everything that is wrong with you? How can you except anybody to love all that?" Well, it is time to declare our weaknesses as such and hand them over to God. Only God can make beauty from ashes and gladness from mouring and strength from fear. Maybe the conversation should be more like this: "Yeah Satan those are my weakness. Now I demand you GIVE THEM BACK TO ME. Ya wanna know why? cause my God - Ya know the creator of heaven and earth - He created me with those weaknesses. And when I am done here I am going to put them in HIs hands and watch and see how His glory is going to be revealed."

Like I said before this also works in other relationships too. Think about that friend that always seems to cheer you up when you are down and who is there for you whenever you feel alone. Thank them today for being that friend (Thanks Jerri, Sharon, and Emilie to name a few of mine own.) When we admit that we have a weakness in one area it gives someone else a chance to shine. It gives God a chance to show His glory.

Fight Like a Girl - Ch. 1

Okay so after watching the first session of the Fight Like a Girl (hereafter called FLAG) I was stuck with one thought. We are made in the image of Christ - a reflection of sorts.

I have not been able to get that out of my head. (We met monday and it is Wed.) While you are looking into a mirror you are seeing a reflection of yourself. That reflection can not make individual movement or process thought on its own. We are to be the reflection of Christ. However, we are able to move outside what God does and speak things that God does not directly speak to us. We ARE to be a reflection of his love to the world.

My first though on Monday night was how we are to only speak the words he puts in our mouths and make the movements He has spoken into our lives. I also thought about the times where God has given me a Word to me or to somebody else and I try to figure out by myself. That always ends up pretty bad. I don't that to ever happen again. I want people to see beyond me and to see Jesus through me.

I was thining about this whole image reflection thing in the car again today and I asked what do people need to see when they look at me as Your reflection. And the answer was simply this:

There is life through death.

I got to thinking about that and I saw a picture of my life reflecting the cross. But not in a sad way in a way that showed the world that you can't truly live until you have died to yourself. There are so many levels to that answer. I know I haven't grasped the fullness of it yet, but I am listening to may He may continue to speak to me.

I pray that the next few weeks of the FLaG LifeGroup bring lots more to my life.