Classes Week 3

 

RLA 2 week 3
These classes I am taking work well together. It's so holy spirit-led. This week it was on seasons and sanctification.  Sanctification is used to describe the process of being set apart and allowing God to help us become the vessel that can be used by the holy spirit.

Sanctification is not a pleasant process, but it is absolutely necessary for us to reach the next level of how God wants to speak through or use us. You know, I used to hate not being able to fit in, not feel I mesh anywhere, but it's no longer because I don't mesh, but it's because I am set apart.

God purposely had me set apart from this world. I admit it gets lonely. I wish I had people to walk alongside me in this journey of life, but I know that God has a purpose for everything. 

Since I gave the definition of Sanctification. I will provide you with two additional takeaways that stood out to me, in addition to the meaning of sanctification. 

The following refers to sanctification, and it really stands out to me. 
• This is always about your willingness to submit to the will of God to leave the things behind that have held you captive

This other takeaway really makes me think. We often don't like the pruning of the sanctification process, but when I heard this, it was light right. It may have been a barrier all along.
• Most of the stuff that is pruned are barriers that stand in the way between us and him.

While this was not part of the course, it reminds me also of a quote or thought I saw. That God does nto remove without the thought of replacing. Sometimes we get all bent about something that was removed but the above statement could describe why that pruning took place. God wants us, and he wants a relationship with us. However, if it's a barrier, then he sometimes prunes it away. Pruning is God's way of moulding us and growing us. If those things were to stay, we would never reach.

Identity week 3
This week I learned that we make an average of 3500 decisions a day. That was one of my takeaways, and a trail off that which was a takeaway as well is how many of those decisions do we include God in. 

Yes, it's so easy to go on autopilot, wear these shoes, have this for breakfast, go this way to where you are going, but what if God wants to be involved even in a simple task, such as what you will eat for breakfast? God doesn't want to be asked occasionally; He wants to help guide us all the time. 

The other thought that stood out to me from this class was
• God speaks to us in ways that make sense to us. He won't speak to us in a way that talks to someone else.

We need to be open and more trusting of God. For example, for some people God talks to them in the shower, for others he talks to other people, etc. We need to have faith and rest assured that God will talk to us in ways we will understand. This stood out because people often tell me that God speaks through others, but what others have said to me has discouraged me. Not answered my questions, etc. It also has made me doubt that God was even for me.

God knows us so well, he created us, he knows how to communicate with us in ways we will understand. Never doubt God knows how to reach us. We just need to be open to it.

I love growing, I love learning, and yes, something can be frustrating because I do not understand, but 99% of the time growing is my fave thing to do.

God is so good, and I look forward to seeing what will happen in a year. All God, his timing, his way. I just need to take the steps that he guides me too.