Written on September 13, 2024. Published same day around 12:30pm PST. Thanks for reading.
What if, in order to gain strength from God’s love, you would need to release your need for approval from people? I am getting there and I want you to join me and millions of others. From my experience, let me assure you – this (not to gain approval from others / GO TO GOD) is not easy!
This article is going to be short and SWEET.
If you took the time to study the Bible, you would have many stories that would really help you understand that it’s GOD’s world, not your world. God is not adjusting His world to your chaos! He isn’t lowering the bar for you! And, believing God is adjusting us is the dilemma too many people are experiencing. They think God adjusts to meet our needs. He does not / should not / will not.
I just got done with a study about the book of Deuteronomy. Before I go on, I am not a Pastor or anything close to being a theologian! KNOW THIS! This is my simpleton way of interpreting the Bible.
Before Moses dies, the Lord takes Moses to the top of Mount Nebo.
34 Then Moses climbed from the plains of Moab to Pisgah Peak in Mount Nebo, across from Jericho. And the Lord pointed out to him the Promised Land, as they gazed out across Gilead as far as Dan:
2 “There is Naphtali; and there is Ephraim and Manasseh; and across there, Judah, extending to the Mediterranean Sea; 3 there is the Negeb; and the Jordan Valley; and Jericho, the city of palm trees; and Zoar,” the Lord told him.
4 “It is the Promised Land,” the Lord told Moses. “I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give it to their descendants. Now you have seen it, but you will not enter it.”
5 So Moses, the disciple of the Lord, died in the land of Moab as the Lord had said. 6 The Lord buried him in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but no one knows the exact place.
7 Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was perfect and he was as strong as a young man. 8 The people of Israel mourned for him for thirty days on the plains of Moab.
A Lesson Taught to Me
I have been at several different schools.
People never understood why I would stay only long enough to get a program built and not stay to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Well, this story teaches me that Moses, who endured so much leading the people, did NOT get to enjoy the “Promised Land.” Neither did I.
I am not here so much to enjoy life as much as to prepare me for the next life. Suffer here to deeply enjoy there.
Why not read The Bible and learn lessons that can ‘ground’ you / calm you down? Center yourself.
Don’t misunderstand this school music teacher (me). Learning a lesson doesn’t mean it is going to be easy.
No.
Since my decision to walk away from public education in CALIFORNIA, I am still in the “valley!” Thirty-plus years on a steady climb to the mountain top, the valley is deep. The higher the mountains, the lower the valley! However, when I get depressed or even anxious about the direction of my life, God is there with His Bible to calm me down. Way better than one more drink or one more pill. Also, He gives me moments all the time – be it the 4th grade scholars’ smiles when they make their first sound on their instrument or last night’s JASON ALDEAN CONCERT {not a country fan, but that was an incredible concert} – that give me a sense He is there for me. Guiding me through the “valley.”
GO TO THE BIBLE. Allow it to be the compass out of the “valley.”
Told ya, it was going to be a short article (giggle).
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