Bible Study

I have spoken before about Bible Study Fellowship--the bible study that I attend on Monday nights. We have started up again, and Hannah is able to go this year. I've been excited and a little nervous wondering how she would fit in. She was excited and I think she was expecting fun games, of which there were none. Although she said it was boring and they did "a lot of talking", she wanted to read her Bible before she went to bed that first night, and has reminded me that we need to do her Bible Study. She is also excited about being able to answer the questions. I am hoping that she will soon be reading well enough to read and write the answers to the questions herself and do the Bible reading herself, because right now I am having to help with hers and do my own.

We are studying the book of Matthew and we had to read the entire book this week. That has been a little challenging for us since there are 28 chapters. I have to admit I haven't been able to get Hannah to sit still for 8 chapters at a time. I have read her enough to answer her questions, and called it quits. I am looking foward to what God will do with the knowledge she gains. I am also excited about studying Matthew, because its concepts speak to our daily living. Romans had some difficult concepts to grasp, and Matthew, although it may not be "fun" learning is at least easily understood. So far my favorite passage is Matthew 6: 25-34

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.