Finished my homework!

I finished up day 5 this morning. Something really cool is happening here. There is so much symbolism in the Bible that was completely lost on me until now.

This morning the question was how many loaves of bread were placed on the table in the tabernacle? 12....aha my brain thought 12 for the 12 tribes! And bread, The Bread of Life, brings me back to manna and God's daily provision for the Israelites. So much to think about, so rich in meaning, I love the quiet time spent in God's Word...best part of the day by far! There is so much more than what meets the eye when one simply reads the words on the page! I don't know how I've lived so long without this in my life.

I'm sad that it has taken me nearly 40 years to get serious about studying the Bible, I am eternally grateful to Kathy Vander Tuig for asking me to join her in facilitating a Beth Moore study. Reading God's word and gaining a fuller UNDERSTANDING of what I am reading is changing my life.

I am grateful that Beth Moore does all the work of showing us correlations between passages, but more than that, I am thankful that she reminds us each day to ask God to give us understanding of what we are reading. Without that moment of quieting down and asking God to be with us, it's just another fill in the blank session, more knowledge is good, but God is after our hearts.

When I taught Sunday School years ago, it always amused me that when the kids didn't know the answer to a question, they always went with "Jesus" as the answer. Those kids were on to something...the more I study the Old Testament stories, they all point to Jesus.

It truly is all about Jesus.