Boundaries..... the good and the bad.....the justice and the mercy of those things we so often kick and scream against.....but truly, most are the mercy of God upon those HE loves.
This past Monday my oldest granddaughter had her first experience with UIL competition. She'd been entered in 2 different events...one was poetry reading the other was spelling.
She'd prepared so very much so that her presentation would be all it could be and perhaps place her in the final rounds of the competition.
They'd gotten up early and loaded onto the bus......she was the first name called to get aboard.
Excitement was the order of the day, but that was soon overcome by disillusionment. (I will say, that this experience was as much a teaching for her mom and the adults present as for her... the adults were the ones who make the difference at this age! there lies the responsibility!) KG had done everything that was required from her place.
Married to an athletic husband I often have these examples set before me, and one strikes me explicitly for this situation....
Troy played D1 baseball in his college years, and so I will use that as my visual although any sport could fit...
Imagine a coach explaining the game to a group of highly talented and motivated young men who had never played the game. They know how to run, hit and catch the ball... they've practiced long hours to play the game, and they know that to win, they must hit the ball, run and make it home to score... imagine that they get out there on the field against a team that is feeling the same as they... both want to win... but there is one difference. The other team knows that there are rules to the game... there are bases and baselines to run within... and they must play together to finish the game.
The coach forgot to tell his team... you must touch each of the 3 bases as you run towards home plate.. THAT IS HOW YOU SCORE!
This was sort of the situation with my KG... she knew she had to read her poems with clarity, personality and expression... she even had them memorized... BUT NO ONE TOLD HER THAT SHE WOULD BE TIMED! that the judges would hold up signs for her timing... she had no idea what they were doing... and besides that... she had 2 poems ready when the rest only had 1.
THEN.... the spelling came... the list she'd been given was the wrong list... these were NOT the words that were in her level of the competition...
She'd thought she was perfectly prepared, but she wasn't.... and the experience was not what it could have (SHOULD have been)!!! The adults responsible for her "playing the game" had left her stranded and unprepared! She didn't know the rules
She didn't know the boundaries...
A loving teacher would have had her completely ready for what would come...
A teacher who understood "the game" would have had her students tested and ready for whatever would be coming their way...
Believe me.... KG mother understood immediately what this situation was and what it should have been.... It will NOT be repeated! This mother took care of the situation as effectively as a surgeon with a sharp scalpel handled precisely and with healing.
KG will compete again, but I guarantee she will go in prepared fully for the situations that will be presented.
Right now, I believe we are being prepared for the places we are being taken by THE LORD WHO loves us incredibly!
HE will NOT allow us to stumble in the "games"... the "arenas" in which we are being called!
"My people die from lack of knowledge"
I understand that to mean that He wants us to have the knowledge... there is just something/someone who is preventing us from having the full knowledge we need for these places to which we are called. We do have an enemy... but the best news is this... we also have a Warrior LORD WHO fights for us... "greater is HE that is in us than he that is of the world"!
I have listed a few references that have come across my heart these last few weeks... they may take a while to read... but I promise... you will find them worth the time it takes to read... may we all know that the LORD WHO told NOAH and prepared him for the times... will as surely tell us...
His mercy is the source of our boundaries
His grace allows us to know the prophecy that is for us.
Thank YOU FATHER for loving me enough to tell me! amen
Sam's Nov newsletter... AMAZING PROPHECY and understanding for right now! MUST READ!
Chuck Pierce Nov 30 and Dec. 5th continued
(flames and New Boundaries)
(new trade routes... supply routes... ports will reopen and open)
(my friend from California and the mercy of God's boundaries in her morning measure of manna Bible study with Moses)
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