Called to be a Keeper

         The Fall semester started back up this month for Fall Bible studies for the church that I go to and I'm taking one that is just right for me and that I know I am going to love. It is on Monday nights and it started this past Monday and I already did the 1st day work in the book and I love it. It is called "Called to be a Keeper" by Lori Merrill and it is going through the verses from Titus and Proverbs 31. The class and study has already given me some great ideas to think on. It has a video that we watch during the study and some other different hand ons classes so we do every other Monday with those two things. I know there are going to be some classes on cooking, household management, personal growth, and hospitality along with other things.
         There is one thing that I got out of the study this past Monday from the video and it was "think of Proverbs 31 as learning and doing all of those things over a lifetime, not in just one day". To be honest with you, I was trying to do them all in one day but there isn't enough time for all of those things so that made perfect sense to me. The study is mainly about learning and living out God's proprieties as a women and wife of God. I also loved that the leader in the video kind of gave us a background of Proverbs 31. She said that it was the King's mother giving the advice to the king. The first 10 verses where warning the king that women do have and will try to take their power and strength but that they shouldn't give it to them.
            I think that our main purpose as women is to "set in order what remains" and that comes from verse 5 in Titus chapter 1. It also gave things that older women should do in their lives and what younger women should do in their lives too. Older women should: reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossip, nor drink too much wine, and they are to teach what is good to the younger women. All this is found in Titus 2:3-5. Younger women should: love their husbands, love their children, be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind and be subject to their own husbands.
            In the video, while the speaker was speaking, she said that God says: "You are not  beyond redemption." That is something really important to remember and it should give us comfort. We are always able to run back to God when we need help or have messed up. I say that because in Titus chapter 2, verse 5 it says: "so that the Word of God will not be dishonored." Not to scare any women out there, but we need to try not to dishonor God. Yes, I understand that we are sinners and that we mess up but that should at least be our goal everyday. We should ask God to help us honor Him in our day because we don't want to dishonor Him. That is another important thing that really stuck to me during the Bible study.
             Then the Day 1 study for homework was all about seeking His Kingdom and righteousness first. Putting God as your first priority and everything else should fall into place. I like how the writer of the book used John 4:31-34, which says, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and accomplish His Work." The writer uses "food" as an example for us. Our purpose and priority of God should be so important that we should want Him more then food. Some of the questions that she asked in her book was: "What is your "food"? or "What provides your "nourishment in life"? In other words, "What is it that you live for?"
            I just have a feeling that I am going to like this study a lot and that I am going to learn a lot from it. I need anything that will help me grow into the women God wants me to be and to run, right now, my apartment the way God wants me to. Hopefully, later in life, it will be a house. It is good to learn while you are still young or at least to have an idea of what you can do or sure do. This study is going right along with my FACS degree and I think that is kind of neat. To find a study that matches me that well. The title is a neat one and I'm very interested in learning what it means and once I do, I'll share it on here. The word "keeper" for us, women, is a new one for me. This is the first time that I have heard it used for us.