I am chosen...

Sunday marks a new chapter in my life as a preacher's wife.  I will be teaching a women's Sunday School class.  Women of all ages have been invited to join this newly formed class.  It goes along with the new "flip-flop" service schedule.  I am acually pretty excited about the whole thing.

The first chapter of the study we are doing (http://www.lifeway.com/Product/duty-or-delight-knowing-where-you-stand-with-god-member-book-P005429354) talks about how we, as women, listen to the lies of Satan.   Those lies we have all heard, such as "you aren't good enough", "You will always really be alone",  "You aren't pretty enough, smart enough, ________enough".  We have heard them, and we have fallen for them.  

The take away from this very first section is "I AM CHOSEN".  It is based on Ephesians 1:4, where we read "For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.".  He chose me.

The study says that in the next few weeks we will learn how to put our feet down and stop putting up with what we've been putting up with.  It's time for the condenmation to stop.  It's time for the guilt to stop.  It's time for the prayerlessness to stop.  It's time for the fear to stop.  It's time for all those false expectations to stop.  It's time you enjoyed your God.  I could sure use some of that!!

I feel nervous about teaching this class, but I am convicted in the very begining of the study NOT to feel that way!  So, since I am chosen...I will teach.  Join me if you want to...11 am on Sundays.  It should be a lot of fun!!