“Skip the Stress”
Having a relationship with God can be a wonderful experience. Or extremely frustrating.
There are land mines.
I remember the first year or so after asking Jesus into my life. I loved getting to know God. I'd spend hours in the Gospels, captivated by Jesus' life and how he interacted with people.
The more I read, the more I appreciated him.
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But I also found myself reading things in the Bible that took me off-guard. Certain actions were identified as *sins* that I had thought were perfectly ok!
I also found commands like: "be patient, tenderhearted, forgiving," which were far easier to read than to do.
In frustration, I thought, "It was much easier being an atheist."
Even worse, over the next several months, I started feeling like I owed God payback for all the great things he was doing in my life.
I thought, "Now that I know God is there, I should be talking to him more. I should be reading the Bible more. I should be talking to my friends who don't know him. I should be, I should be...."
Ok. Let me tell you -- that is NOT how God wants us to live out our relationship with him.
He has not asked us to open our arms, brace our footing, and catch some enormous, cosmic to-do list. He also is not asking us to prove that we are worthy to know him -- we're not! And he's perfectly aware of that.
God gives us an entirely different (and refreshing) way to live out our relationship with him.
I've put this into a short 5-part email series for you, simply called: "Skip the Stress."
Here's what it will cover:
-- what to do with all those commands you see
-- who is the Holy Spirit and what he does for us
-- how God changes our lives and frees us
-- what it means to live by faith
-- how to be honest about sin, yet remain free from guilt
This email series will come directly from me, Marilyn Adamson, director of Everystudent.com. To receive it, just fill out the form on this page. The first email will be in your mailbox in a few minutes. I think you'll really enjoy this!
Sincerely,
Marilyn Adamson
director of Everystudent.com
and startingwithGod.com
