Today marks the last day of our church’s women’s Bible study through the book of Genesis. Among other things, we have made lists, looked for repeated phrases, watched the genealogies, studied the history, noted the characteristics of God revealed in that history, highlighted key words, and looked up the meaning of words like “covenant”. Three hundred women on an adventure through these 50 chapters of this, the “Book of Beginnings”.
Fifty chapters of seeing God’s patience. His sovereignty. The way He keeps His promises. His love, mercy, and justice mingling together. His scarlet thread of redemption that started in chapter 3 and kept on throughout the book. His constant foreshadowing of Jesus. His provision for His covenant people.
I have loved watching our women go after it. Making time to read and study their Bibles. In fact, I was so inspired that when they posted on social media, I started downloading their photos to make this little collage. I love that they didn’t wait for life to slow down or their circumstances to change – they seized the time they already had. Reading and studying on the go if they had to.
I share the photos here now, because I hope you’re inspired and encouraged too. We can do this. We can tend to our inner souls and let our worldview be transformed in the small, ordinary moments of our days. A prayer breathed as we change a diaper. A verse of truth internalized while we wait at our kid’s swim meet. A big thought about God pondered while we take our lunch break at work. A moment alone with our journals before the chaos starts and everyone else wakes up. A chapter read while kids or pets climb on us. A choice to read over our letters from God while we travel (for work or pleasure). Honestly, I wonder if it’s in those spaces that God is most honored because of the intentionality and desire that goes with all those interspersed moments.
It reminds me a little bit of Brother Lawrence who learned to practice the presence of God as he went about his day. He even penned a prayer that started, “Oh Lord of the pots and pans…”
He is the God of Creation. He is the God of Covenant. And, yet, He is also the God of our ordinary moments. What a joy to know Him!
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