Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Growing Deeper

Growing deeper
In 2000, a team of women began a project to write a Bible Study. When we began to write this study, it was our intention that it would be used here at America's KESWICK for the women in the Women of Character program, but apparently that was not God's intention.

We have received numerous requests to use it in women's Bible studies and recovery support groups. To our knowledge it has been translated into Russian and Spanish. God has taken our meager 'loaves and fishes' offering and has multiplied it a thousand-fold. Definitely God!The light at the end of the tunnel is growing brighter. We are putting the finishing touches on a Bible Study we wrote for wives of the men in the Colony of Mercy, preparing it for printing. We have been using this 14-chapter topical study for 4 or 5 years and are now ready to print and bind it.

In the process of rereading almost 200 pages of text for editing, proofing, and correction, I have found myself chuckling about ways I chose to say things when I wrote them 5 or 6 years ago. I made the comment to Steph, "I'm not even sure I agree with myself." It's not that what we wrote was wrong, but as evidence of God's work of grace and sanctification in our lives, we have grown. We understand at a deeper, richer level the truths of which we wrote. I want to stand up and shout, "Hallelujah!"

My heart overflows with gratitude that, every day, God continues to groom us, teach us, change us, and mold us into the image of His Son (2 Corinthians 18; Romans 8:29). At the moment of our salvation, God began the work of sanctification in our lives which will not be complete until the day we see Him face-to-face. God used the process of editing the Bible Study to demonstrate that truth in our lives. We have and continue to grow up in Him."As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6-7

Stay tuned for more information about how and when you can obtain your own copy of the Bible Study. When we know, we'll let you know.

Diane Hunt is the Director of Addiction Recovery Ministries

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