One month into 2012, and it’s time to check in with our New Year’s Resolutions. So how are things going? Great, that’s really great. Or maybe not so great. If that’s the case, take a breath and hit restart. Look at the start of February as your new New Year and make the adjustments that you need to make.
Team Sublett has successfully completed month 1 of our Bible reading time. We rolled through Proverbs in January. Have you read the intro to Proverbs? Here’s what God promises:
Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. These proverbs will give insight to the simple, knowledge and discernment to the young. Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the words of the wise and their riddles.
So after a solid month of reading and praying and listening and thinking through the wise sayings of the wisest man of all time (King Solomon) it’s time to take stock of where we are, to see what we’ve learned. I don’t know that we’re measurably wiser, but here are a few of my observations:
*We didn’t miss a day, including those days that school was delayed! And most days we start really close to our goal of 7am. Of course, there were some days that one child or another was sick, and there were a couple of breakfasts that Levi or Lilly bailed to go eat with their small group leader. That’s pretty good, too.
*The more we practiced listening for God to speak to us, the better we got. At the start, Josie and Annabelle in particular had trouble identifying anything that spoke to them. But as we kept trying, they learned to hear that one phrase, that one idea that they felt the Lord was impressing on them.
*Levi read through Proverbs last year with some other high school students, and he often remembered something that he’d run across before.
*As we’ve prayed and read together, we’re cultivating an appreciation and importance of spending time in God’s word. That’s a habit that I hope to pass on to our children for the rest of their lives. God’s word is supposed to give us discernment and insight, to teach us how to live. If I can pass that on to my children, I’ll call that a win.
We’re rolling through the Proverbs a second time. I’ll let you know how things go. I wish that there was a wisdom-meter that we could use to measure our growth. Have you seen one of those?
Are you spending time in God’s word? If so, how is it affecting your life?
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