Sarah Bowling

A few years ago, I had to privilege of taking my kids to Berlin when Reece & I were doing some ministry there.  It was a really cool experience for all of us.  Before we left, I did some educational work with my kids about the modern history of Berlin, including the Berlin Wall, Cold War, Communism, etc.  We went to the library & checked out books on these topics, we watched interviews with people who had lived there & we even saw a cool Nat’l Geog special about the development of the Berlin Wall over the decades of its existence.  I loved getting to do all of this educational leg work with my kids because I knew that when we arrived in the city, we’d be able to visit many sites that they had read about, we’d be able to go to the Berlin wall & visit East Berlin & get to 1st hand interact with the material we’d learned about – it was a SUPER COOL experience.  I remember doing this kind of thing as a kid when my parents took me to the Pyramids in Egypt.

So here’s my point with this – I think God uses the same kinds of teaching techniques.  I find that many times, He gives me the schooling I need in the Bible to help me walk out what I’ll be exploring, learning and experiencing in life.  The other day in my prayer time, I was hesitant to leave & enter the demands of the day because I was having such great fellowship with God.  Nevertheless, I felt God encourage me that I wasn’t really leaving our fellowship, but rather we were merely changing the contexts – from the “classroom” of our quiet time to the application of daily living.  Hopefully, after reading this, you also will recognize that our fellowship with God doesn’t have to “end”, but instead it just expands to include more areas of our life