I am a detail-oriented person. I like to see all the detail that a project entails to get the bigger picture and go back through so I have the step process in my head. This enables me to start what I need to start and organize in my head. How I cook is a perfect example of how my brain functions. The first time I follow a recipe I do so exactly the way it is written out. After that first time I can see the steps and the basic concept of how the dish is "supposed" to taste, how long I need to cook certain things,and what steps I can overlap. Then I can then change a few variables to apply it more to my family's taste buds, I can organize the steps and the next few times I make that dish it takes half the time. So when I review the lesson I am learning the steps, the bigger picture of God's word, more of what God says, and how God wants me to use it. In essence I am writing out the lesson to review because the more review the deeper it will go into my heart. Hopefully by the end of the series I will grasp more of God's Word and have more freedom to follow where He leads.
The title of week five is "Binding Up the Broken Hearted":
Day 1: Isaiah 61:1 "He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted." This day asks us to explore when we have been broken hearted. The lesson explores examples in scripture where God bound up broken hearts. Genesis 16:1-13, Genesis 39:11-23, Ruth 1:3-18, and 2 Samuel 12:15-25.
Day 2/3: Matt 18:1-2 "At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' He called a little child and had him stand among them."
Matt 18:7 "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!"
The main theme of these two days are hearts that are broken in childhood. This lesson was tough and more thorough than I am going to be, but here are the 6 main points:
1. Children are the apple of Christ's eye. Matt 18:1-9; Mark 10:16
2. Children are uniquely accompanied by Christ. Matthew 18:5, 10
3. Abuses to children may as well have been personally applied to Christ Matt 18: 5, 10; Zechariah 2:8
4. Christ is never the author of abuse. Matt 18
5. Christ avenges the abuse or victimization of children Matt 18:6-10 This passage is likely referring to childhood victimization for 2 reasons:
a. Christ refers to a person that does something to another or in this case a little one.
b. Christ refers to an action that causes one of these little ones to stumble or "to sin". The point here was that victimization in childhood can dramatically increase certain sins. A person is responsible for his/her own sin, but confession of the sin is not about fault but freedom to heal from the victimization. I Samuel 17:47
Lamentations 3:58-59 "Oh Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life. Oh Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case."
6. We can sadly assume victimization will continue in this present world system. Matt. 18
Day 4: Psalm 55:12 " If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him."
This day focused on hearts that are broken by betrayal. It states four reasons why Christ is the perfect one to go to when one is betrayed. 1. Christ is sympathetic. 2. Christ knows I am weak 3. Christ has been tempted in every way I have. 4. Christ met my same temptation without sin.
Matthew 26:14-56; Philippians 2:5, 3:10; Colossians 1:24
Day 5: John 11:25 "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies'"
This day discusses hearts broken by loss that only Christ can fill. This can be a loss of any kind; friendship, person, change of jobs, home, health, relationships etc.
Well, that is all I have time for today. Until next time.
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