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  • Elohim

    Posted on June 4th, 2012 rhonda No comments

    I am the Lord, and there is no other;

    Apart from Me there is no God.

    Isaiah 45:5

     

    I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it means for me to accept my lot in life, particularly accepting things I can’t change.

    One of the things that I have to continually remind myself to accept is that God is God.  I cannot change Him to suit my needs.  The only thing I can do is summon the courage to accept His changing me.

    I have a book entitled Knowing God by His Names, and so my word for today is Elohim, which means omnipotent power.   Elohim is one of the names of God.  The Omnipotent Power is my God, and I need to recognize & respect that fact.

    The King James version of Psalm 100:3 reads as follows, “Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture”.  The first time I read it, the verse struck me.  If someone had come up to me and asked me if I created myself, I would have said, “Of course not!”  Yet, I often act and think like I did create myself.

    Know ye that the Lord, He is God.

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    The purpose of If I Knew Then What I Know Now is to share some insights that I wish someone had told me about when I was younger.  There’s a fuller explanation on my first post, written on May 14, 2012.

     

  • Family

    Posted on June 3rd, 2012 rhonda No comments

    “Now at last my husband will become attached to me,

    because I have borne him three sons.”

    Genesis 29:34

     

    As an unmarried woman, I had long labored under the belief the marriage automatically bestowed companionship, warmth, and protection – all the warm & fuzzy feelings normally associated with family.  (That’s my word of wisdom for today – family.)  Over the years, as I saw couples that I thought were happy suddenly file for divorce; and even as I spoke with women who love their husbands & children admit that there were times when they still felt alone, I’ve come to realize that family doesn’t automatically mean “closeness”.  Leah was Jacob’s first, but unloved, wife; and she’s the one hoping that giving birth to a third son will finally make him love her.  It’s sad.

    I’m not writing this to be a wet blanket.  In my very first (May 14) blog on this website, I revealed that I did not know the importance of making choices about how I wanted my life to unfold.  A family can be a place of protection, bonding, peace, warmth, understanding, etc; but now I believe family only becomes that place if you choose & plan for your family to be that safe haven.  Being happily married is better than being alone; and being alone is much better than being unhappily married.  The planning begins with God.

     God sets the lonely in families . . .

    Psalm 68:6

    The purpose of If I Knew Then What I Know Now is to share some insights that I wish someone had told me about when I was younger.  There’s a fuller explanation on my first post, written on May 14, 2012.