{"id":790661,"date":"2022-11-17T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=790661"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:43:53","slug":"the-surprising-joy-of-daily-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/the-surprising-joy-of-daily-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Joy of Daily Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice every day? For one year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo,\u201d most of us will respond. Whatever it is, \u201cI don\u2019t want to, I don\u2019t have to, and you can\u2019t make me,\u201d we defy in toddler-speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As adults with much to do already, there are few endeavors we willingly pursue daily for the long haul. Maybe brushing our teeth\u2014hopefully most of us practice that daily. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breathing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems to be high on our willingness to practice regularly!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An instrument? Maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prayer? Yes . . . Well, most days . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever it is, every day for an entire year, we will only make such a commitment when we deem it worthy of our time and effort, rewarding on multiple levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of us have been reading our Bibles every day for years on end, living in the fullness of God\u2019s replenishing and guiding messages. While others of us have only dreamed of being able to accomplish one solid week, let alone one solid year, reading through our Bibles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holy Scripture can be hard to understand, even emotionally and mentally taxing in difficult or confusing passages. We want to read God\u2019s Word but are often unsure where to start, how to follow along, and whether His Word is relevant for us in all we face this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it worth my effort? Will God speak to me? Can I really do this?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have certainly known this challenge very personally. So when I was invited by Tyndale House Publishers to write daily devotions for <\/span><b>The One Year Bible for Women<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I felt the enormity of such an undertaking, and I resisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet ultimately, in reverence and with reluctance-mixed-with-compulsion, I made my decision and accepted the invitation to write\u2014with one caveat. Since I am not one to gloss over hard stuff in favor of fluff, I determined: I would go where the Scriptures led, and likely straight toward the hard stuff. So it began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were tears and struggles\u2014and gifts at every turn. I\u2019ll get to those, but first, my invitation for you: What are you doing for . . . say . . . the next 365 days of your life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ladies, would you consider joining me (or gentlemen, my husband Steve, who authored devotions for <\/span><b>The One Year Bible for Men<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) for a journey through Scripture this year? It would be my honor and, I trust, our mutual enrichment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can read God\u2019s Word together, a day at a time, and see what we find in epic adventure and camaraderie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it\u2019s your first time through or you\u2019ve followed this method of Scripture reading for years, I also trust that within these pages you will experience a fresh move of God in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women, together, we will encounter the leadership of Deborah, the sorrow of Job\u2019s wife, the bravery of Jehosheba, and critical contributions from female disciples of Jesus. We will lean into the hard spaces and dare to keep seeking and growing. We will practice new skills, because practice makes progress. And I love to make progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What might God have in store for you as you pursue him this year? I received three special gifts while writing for this project, and it makes me wonder: What surprises await you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I first received the gift of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">obligation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which did not seem like a gift at the time. I\u2019d committed to read and press for answers, so no longer would I put off troublesome passages until a more convenient time. Now was the time. I would dig for answers until answers came. And far better than that, spiritual awakening came.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This resulted in the second gift: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strengthened assurance that answers are there if we want them<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. God wants to be known and will faithfully reveal himself to the seeker. May we ever move toward him in reaching for truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third gift was born of my own moving toward him. Through reaching and seeking, protest and wrestling, striving, and struggling for yet another year\u2014as with every new season, time and again\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I unfailingly landed on one persistent conclusion: God is good<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is good. And he is for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is for humanity, for women and for men, for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is for me, and he is for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is for children. And he has invited us to come to him as such\u2014eager to learn and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">openhearted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will you join us in responding to him? Let us read our Bibles, every day, for one year, and see what God has in store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The One Year Bible for Women<\/i><\/b><b>, with daily notes from Misty Arterburn, and <\/b><b><i>The One Year Bible for Men<\/i><\/b><b>, with daily notes from Steve Arterburn, are now available at <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyndale.com\/p\/nlt-the-one-year-bible-for-women\/9781496449443?utm_source=Church+Answers+Blog+Link+to+Buy+OY+for+Women&amp;utm_medium=One+Year+Bible+for+Women+and+One+Year+Bible+for+Men&amp;utm_campaign=Tyndale+Bibles\"><b>tyndale.com<\/b><\/a><b> or wherever books and Bibles and sold.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Practice every day? For one year? \u201cNo,\u201d most of us will respond. Whatever it is, \u201cI don\u2019t want to, I don\u2019t have to, and you can\u2019t make me,\u201d we defy in toddler-speak. As adults with much to do already, there are few endeavors we willingly pursue daily for the long haul. 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