Weekend Away, Dorset

Some brilliant moments. Also some really hard moments. But God caught all my tears. I struggled, oh how I struggled with Him! But there was only one decision that gave me peace, such peace that transcended all understanding. I feel assurance that it is what God wants, so I'm going to stick with it, even if I don't understand it at all (why would God give mixed signals?).

I know God can be trusted.

A few truths that have come to me after, reading the first letter of the apostle Peter especially:



1. To love unconditionally.

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." ~ 1 Peter 4:8
"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." ~ John 15:12



2. To continue waiting on the Lord.

"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good." ~1 Peter 2:2

"Be holy, because I am holy." ~1 Peter 1:16

"[Stand] firm" ~ 1 Peter 5:9



3. To repent of pride and vanity.

"Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behaviour of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewellery and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master [even though, frankly, he made some disgraceful decisions; if I had been his wife...]. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear." ~ 1 Peter 3:1-6



4. And finally, to submit.

"To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." ~1 Peter 2:21