What have I learned?
My BSF class finished for the year today. It was a great study "Isreal and the minor prophets"
I have noticed when I study the Bible, No matter which part I am readingI tend to get the same message every week. Then when I finally step out in faith and obey the lesson that I am being taught, I begin to hear another lesson every week. God seems to transform me one step at a time.
Some of the interesting lessons God taught me from this year's studies:
Compromise leads to more compromise. We should stand on the Truth of God's word, and not compromise. Once we compromise, one sin tends to lead to another.
Trust God, and act in your faith. In order to experience God's love, you have to give up control to him. It is difficult to measure God's presence in your life if you don't allow him to control anything. If you don't make any leaps of faith, you will not have a baseline to measure against, and you will not notice God's influence in your life. You must live faithfully in order to experience his faithfulness.
I find it astonishing how the prophesies of Christ are scattered throughout the old testement, and are so well fullfilled by Him. The Bible all fits together as a perfect puzzle, pained over thousands of years, with every piece showing us a part of Christ our Savior. To believe that all of these prophecies would coinidentally be fullfilled takes by far more faith that to believe that they where fullfilled because they where placed there by an all knowing all powerful God.
