A Message from Your Creator

Hi Everyone!

I know--I know!  It has been a long time since I posted last!  Since the day after Christmas, to be exact!  I have been around--just busy on things that take a higher priority.  Around the beginning of January, a friend of mine asked me some questions about the Bible in 90 Days reading program.  She knew this was something I had some experience with--in fact, I have even led several groups in the 90 Day reading program.  From my first experience with reading the entire Bible through in 90 days, I learned how vitially important having someone to check in with, and a sort of reading coach, so to speak, really was to my success in sticking with the program.  When I was kinda bogged down in reading some sections of the Bible that were hard for me--either hard to understand, or hard as in I simply did not enjoy reading about what was happening in that Bible book--I learned that the fact that I had someone I was to check in with weekly kept me from dropping out.  I didn't want to let my mentor down!  And when I finished the program, I was so very very blessed, and so thankful that I had not quit when the going got rough!  Anyway, it was realizing how important having a mentor to me was that made me volunteer to be a mentor in the program several times.  

Then most recently, my friend started asking me about the program.  The on-line program which I worked as a volunteer mentor for is no longer operating the same way it was--so I couldn't just simply send her over to that web site.  So I decided to go ahead and plunge in, and agree to be her mentor.  As a mentor, you are not required to be actively doing the 90 Day reading program yourself--it was only required that you HAVE done the 90 Day reading program in the past.  But I knew it means so much more when the mentor actually IS doing the reading along with you.  Then you are each reading at the same hard parts of the Bible at around the same time.  ANYWAY, so when my friend comitted to really wanting to do this reading program--I committed to being a mentor for her and doing the reading along as well.  

So in a nutshell--that is where I have been this calendar year!  I have been reading the entire Bible through in 90 Days--and it has been a blessing!  My friend and I are not finished yet--we started later on in January, so still have approximately a month or so still to go.  But we are getting there!  And when I am reading the Bible through in 90 days, that is all that I have time to do--it takes me around one hour of reading a day--which does not leave me very much time left for posting on my blog.  And therefore I disappeared--into the pages of my Bible.  Into reading more of His letter to me.  Into thinking more about what I am supposed to learn from those parts that are not my favorite.  Into reflecting as to whether I am doing the same thing as the people I am reading about.  Into Him.  Which is just fine with me.

It has been a blessing.  I had not done a 90 Day Bible reading program for a couple years, so it had been a while.  I know when I do cross that last finish line--the last chapter in Revelation, I will close my Bible and sit there awed.  Amazed at what God has done.  Amazed at what God will do.  Amazed that He loves me THAT much!

I ran across the following list somewhere--I do not remember where.  All things about your Creator.  I hope it blesses you.  And may you spend some time today thinking about Him--for I know He is thinking about you!

Until next time!

~Susan

I am familiar with all of your ways. Ps. 139:3 
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered. Matt. 10:29-31
For you were made in my image. Gen. 1:27
I knew you even before you were conceived. Jer. 1:4-5
I chose you when I planned creation. Eph. 1:11-12
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book. Ps. 139:15-16
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live. Acts 17:26
I knit you together in your mother’s womb. Ps. 139:13
And brought you forth on the day you were born. Ps. 71:6
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand. James 1:17
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs. Matt. 6:31-33
I will never stop doing good to you. Jer. 32:40
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart. Ps. 37:4
For it is I who gave you those desires. Phil. 2:13
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart. Isa. 40:11
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus. Jhn. 17:23
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed. Jhn. 17:26
He is the exact representation of my being. Heb. 1:3
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you. Rom. 8:31-32