Week three: New set of specs

            This week is about biblical worldviews. We all have a worldview and all of us have several different ones honestly. One of the ones that we all have is the view from our culture. We talked about different cultures and had a lot of laughs. The speaker told so many stories. We all wanted to skip meals just to talk to him. He was defiantly engaging. =D I loved it. However, yet again, it wasn’t the weeklong teachings that amazed me. It was the answer to one simple question. What does this passage of scripture really mean? For the past couple of years I have been haunted by the words of one of my friend’s fathers. Most people see God the same way they see their father. However, I’m the wierdy who never put the two together. Instead, I allowed someone else’s father to negatively affect how I saw God. He even used the bible against me. He told me how I had no value and how my role as a woman was in the kitchen or bedroom. He spoke of how he was superior and how I was under him. I was to be submissive. I can seek the lord, but I will always be under a man. Everyone that knows me knows that I am feisty. I am bold, fearless, stubborn, adventurous, hard headed, and a lot of other things that defy submissive. For the longest time I have been trying to tame the lion within me, and I had just gotten it mastered. Until I found out that, the passage (1 Corinthians 14:33-39) wasn’t actually saying what he said it did. It is so often misquoted. The teacher then proceeded to quote just about every scripture that had even been abused by this man, and show it in the light of truth. Omg I can’t tell you what a power high I had that day. I felt so whole again. I felt like myself again. I had my boldness restored, and the lion in me was released. There is a song that says. “My God’s not dead. He’s living on the inside, roaring like a lion.” Omg. It’s so true! So watch out world here I come!

            I thank God so much for how redemptive he is. He took the hurt that the “father figure” in my life did to me, and he redeemed it. The passage that I once couldn’t even look at has become one of my favorites now. It’s amazing! Paul isn’t a sexist woman hater after all. Who knew? It totally shook the foundations of everything I thought I knew about God. Now, I am earnestly seeking out who He really is, and you know what? He is answering me. He is showing me so much more about his character, that I can’t handle it. I love it!!!