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We just began this study at my church on Monday night. I love Beth Moore. I love hearing her speak, watching her passion. I appreciate her energy, her love for Jesus, her desire to share.
I don’t like her homework. It makes my eye twitch. Really.
Every time I have done her studies in the past, I have failed miserably at the actual Bible study. I enjoy the videos, love the group interaction, but the Bible study always scares me a little.
This one really frightens me. There are so many things from which to break free.
But this time will be different. I will do the Bible study. Every, single day of it. Every blank will be filled, every question answered. Every difficult, thought-provoking conversation in my head will be recorded. Most of it here on my blog, though I will not get too personal publicly.
Week One, Day One is about Uzziah. Uzziah was king of Judah, beginning at the age of 16, reigning for 52 years. He was successful. He was a leader, a warrier. He was skillful, smart, and he pleased God…in the beginning anyway.
But then something happened. He got a little too big for his britches. He became prideful. He thought he could do anything he wanted, anywhere he wanted. And when he disobeyed God by trying to play priest and burn incense at the altar of incense, God took him down a notch. He was stricken with leprosy.
When he died, no one remembered him as a great king, a leader of Judah for 52 years. They remembered he had leprosy.
The lesson? When we get prideful, forgetting that all good things come from God, when we forget to give Him honor and praise for the great things he has done, when we forget to be thankful, God will take us down.
At www.dictionary.com bondage is defined as “the state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control.”
When we are bound by anything or anyone that prevents us from receiving God’s abundant blessings, we are in bondage.
We must keep our eyes on Him.
We must break free.
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