30 Days with God - Day 11

Apr 12, 2024 01:55 AM Central
Amy Gregory
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30 Days with God - Day 11

Today was weird.

I read something early in the day that really challenged my beliefs around some of the basic tenants of the faith. I've learned to hold most of my beliefs loosely as I've had to deconstruct so many of them in trying to understand God and my relationship with Him. Most of the time, I'm simply challenged to look a little deeper or wider to see the big picture of the whole - to take out what's unnecessary and keep a hold of what's most important for living a loving and fruitful life. However, today, this was different. This challenged me to look at some things in a totally different light, and it shook me a bit.

Truthfully, I'm not sure what to make of it all yet, so I'm just processing it thus far. One thing it did force me to do is to reconcile myself again with what I believe to be some of the most important parts of our purpose here on earth.

For me, it comes down to 3 things:

1) God created us as an act of love and goodness because he wanted us here and in friendship with Him.

2) God created us in his likeness to carry out a divine purpose of sharing that likeness (love) with others.

2) God wants us to live a good life filled with purpose, joy and abundance.

When I find myself faced with unforeseen situations and unpleasant circumstances or (like today) new knowledge and ideas that challenge my beliefs and faith, I often come back to these things to re-center myself.

"For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago."

- Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

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Hi! I'm Coach Amy G ... a 49 year old empty-nester and proud mama of my one and only son, Jamison, who is now on his own married journey in life with his wife, Montana, who feels like she’s always belonged in our family + the 2 sweet grandpups (Luna & Ember) that we absolutely adore.

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