Cause that is what happens sometimes after I post and then I am taking my morning shower.
I get so much chat time with God and thinking done in the shower....
This past fall I kept hearing the same sentence over and over.. God is a gentleman.
I started thinking on it. I had never thought of God as a Gentleman. If God is a Gentleman... what does that look like? Cause He isn't opening the car door for me.. He opens doors, but not the ones that are physical and attached to a building or a car.
So into my journey of examining God's character and what makes God a Gentleman.
Rewind several years, well maybe 16 or 17 years...
In parenting, I became intentional. I longed to be able to teach my kids "rules" of life NOT because "I said so, but because God said so". I wanted to be able to direct them to His Word, to Him.
I discovered this company, Doorposts and their tools became invaluable. You see I have this memory:
When I was a teenager, during one of the years my family never walked into a church, I picked up my Bible and started reading. I was shocked and astounded. Right there between the pages of Genesis and Revelations were instructions on how to behave. It was one of those years where law and the Constitution was being studied. I had just no idea that the Bible was where it first happened. I just thought all these rules of childhood were something parents created. This discovery started a longing in my heart to know God's Word better.
A few years into parenting, I wanted my children to know the principles we live by were created by God for our good. Not for some selfish parental/adult reason to make life better.
Now back in the present... I have been on a discovery journey of God's character. Knowing who He is, but not being able to support it. If God is a gentleman, then what does this look like. I had read my Bible through one lens... what is it that I am suppose to be learning? Now I started reading it through another lens, what does this say about God, His Character and The Kind of God He is? This past year though, as I study His Word, I will come across a glorious and beautiful truth and then He will follow up that truth with this whisper to my heart..."This is another example of my character, of who I am and who I desire you to be." It is easy to list of examples of good character. But that isn't enough for me.. I want to know where it is in Scripture. and He is showing me. On this day, this verse jumped out at me as I worked through my Bible study book, Breathe:
And I started writing in my book.
God waited.
Patiently waited
6 days,
He waited for the seventh day.
He had an appointment, the Sabbath.
He waited.
He let them tend to life.
But the time came and He called Moses.
God was always there. Present. But not greedy of time and demanding more time.
Not selfish or self seeking wanting more time
He was willing to wait.
He instructs us to seek Him. To pray in all things. To keep Him Lord and worship nothing else. He is balanced and selfish and selfless. He calls us to work. He calls us to rest. He knows that as humans there are things we must tend. We must eat. We must care for others. If He gives us these instructions, He recognizes it means our attention will inevitably be diverted from Him. He doesn't get jealous or demanding or impatient. He awaits for the time He set aside for us to be with Him fully focused, Sabbath. He doesn't even force us to show up to the appointment... free will...
Feeling blessed that as I learn and grow in other areas, He doesn't forget this desire of mine to have Biblical evidence of His character. He just keeps whispering to my heart..
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