Well I have been meaning to blog about my new bible for a while here, and I just hadn't gotten around to it. Anyway I have recently started using the Message Remix for my devotions and I am completely loving it! I started reading in Esther, and it was so awesome, because it is a book I have read before many of times, but never have I had it paint such a clear picture. The detail was so extensive, it was so great! Yesterday morning I had flipped just into proverbs and again was just encouraged by how easy to understand and how the wording in this translation sheds new light to scripture.
As I read through Esther is time another thing that amazed me about this story, was that Esther never let it get to her head. As this translation, really laid out in detail all the riches and glory that she has stepped into, with maids and great food, and extra care. It would be like an orphan girl stepping into the life of Paris Hilton. In this day, that usually destroys a person, they can't handle the pressures and the media and they end up on the cover of ever magazine with some embarrassing story being told. But not Esther, She knew where she had came from, she was thankful and she never forgot who she was. So to add to my list of things that I love about this courageous woman of God, I see the pressures and the things that could have been there just to stay comfortable in her place and not care about her people, but for the call that was inside her, she never hid.
Oh God help me to be bold, strong, courageous and never to sit in my comfort letting my luxuries go to my head. May I never lose site of the call that you have placed on my life!
As I read through Esther is time another thing that amazed me about this story, was that Esther never let it get to her head. As this translation, really laid out in detail all the riches and glory that she has stepped into, with maids and great food, and extra care. It would be like an orphan girl stepping into the life of Paris Hilton. In this day, that usually destroys a person, they can't handle the pressures and the media and they end up on the cover of ever magazine with some embarrassing story being told. But not Esther, She knew where she had came from, she was thankful and she never forgot who she was. So to add to my list of things that I love about this courageous woman of God, I see the pressures and the things that could have been there just to stay comfortable in her place and not care about her people, but for the call that was inside her, she never hid.
Oh God help me to be bold, strong, courageous and never to sit in my comfort letting my luxuries go to my head. May I never lose site of the call that you have placed on my life!
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