TRENCH CLASSES UNITED, A DIVISION OF CHICKLIT POWER MINISTRIES
  • Home
  • Classes
  • Who We Are
  • EVENTS
  • Donate
  • Volunteer
  • Blog
  • Chicklit Power Ministries

Life is like a game of checkers… full of choices -KEL

3/4/2020

0 Comments

 

Wednesday’s Word

 I watched as he sat and thought, and thought, and thought before making his next move…

Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United. We are confident that you will receive something for your own journey with God from this Wednesday’s Word and that you will use it as a weapon of warfare in the battles of life.

I don’t think I had ever seen him think so intensely, and yet it was beautiful at the same time because he wasn’t one to play board games, card games, any game, really, and he had never played Checkers, ever in his life. I myself hadn’t played since I was a young girl. I was both encouraged and frustrated at the same time: encouraged as I have always wanted my husband to join me in board games, card games, games to take our minds away from our stuff and to sit in some fun for a while.

The frustration was two-fold, however: first, he was beating me 😊 😊 😊 Seriously, that was some fun frustration…but then I got to thinking this week – uh-oh… isn’t life like a game of checkers? We all are presented with the gift of choice, choosing small and big things, and many choices have the right/wrong component to them and often affect those in our inner circle.

When situations and circumstances arise as a result of someone else’s choice, don’t you just wish He would have made them to choose differently? Here’s what I have come to know (in Hebrew, the word know translates to yada which means to know with our inner being, in other words as a result of experience) that God doesn’t make things happen to cause us pain; but we can trust Him to work it all out for our good and His glory.

How do I know? Well, to make a really long story short, after months of studying His Word, and years of nurturing my relationship with Him, I finally got brave enough to ask Him, “Why, Lord? Why did you allow this? Why couldn’t you stop him from molesting/hurting us?” To which I heard very, very clearly: “I wept every time he touched you that way.”

God loves us enough to allow us to choose…but we don’t have to choose as if we are lost, wondering and wandering with no one to advise us. Jeremiah 29:12 says that He will listen to us when we call upon Him and when we seek Him with our whole heart, we will find Him…and the answer to each and every choice we have to or get to make.

Perhaps we should begin our days with choosing to invite Him into them.

Thoughtfully,
Kim-Evinda
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018

    Categories

    All
    Anger
    Believe
    Brave
    Change
    Christmas
    Coffeehour
    Comedy
    Compromise
    Concern
    Consumed
    Content
    Courageous
    Emotional
    Encouragement
    Facebook
    Faith
    Faithfilledfridays
    Freedom
    Friends
    Fun
    God
    Grace
    Happiness
    Healthy
    His Plan
    Honesty
    Hope
    James
    John
    Joy
    Kindness
    Laughter
    Light
    Love
    Loveletter
    Maturity
    Mondaymessage
    Mondaysmantra
    Patience
    Peace
    Pray
    Proverbs
    Psalms
    Season
    Thankful
    Thursdaysinvitation
    Thursdaystrenchtruth
    Trenches
    Trust
    Truth
    Tuesdays Invitation
    Wednesdays Word

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Classes
  • Who We Are
  • EVENTS
  • Donate
  • Volunteer
  • Blog
  • Chicklit Power Ministries