If you’re curious why the letters in Nate’s nursery are spaced a little odd, click on over to www.blessed-blessing.com. Today is the last post, about the Proverbs 31 woman.
This Bible study has really been fun to write. I love Bible research. I love the opportunity it provided for women to be in the Word. I love that it inspired me to be more generous. I love that it kept me writing on a deadline…something I haven’t had the confidence to try while I was sick.
My idea for this study started with disappointment. So often, when I’m teaching a Bible study, it’s hard to get people to show up. Yes for the first couple of weeks, but the numbers always dwindle toward the end. I hoped that the online format (delivered to your INBOX!) would be so darn convenient, women would flock to it. And they would be in the Word, more than just Sunday mornings.
The problem with any Bible study ever is that you just never know how the Holy Spirit uses it to inspire and strengthen faith. For me that’s both a comfort and a frustration. Is this work doing any good? Are people reading it? Is God changing their lives through it? Who’s deleting the studies and who’s taking them to heart?
I know. Asking those questions is missing the point. The point(s), of course, are the list of things I loved about doing it. God inspired me to write it, so someone somewhere needed it.
AND…on Friday an editor offered me a book contract for a women’s devotional.
I agreed–with confidence. After being in the Word these past ten weeks, I knew that even when I felt like I had NOTHING to write, the Lord would provide.
In a phrase, He BLESSED me, and now I’m (hopefully) BLESSING others.
