Andy B shared a post earlier today about working and walking in God’ strength, titled Busy days and God’s rhythm
That post started with these words…
“Busy day ahead? Make sure you stop before you start, so you’ll be able to finish!”
…before Andy went to look at how we can expound those words to make for more God like appear!
God’s intentions for our busiest and quietest day, rarely look what we might think. In a bid to give God a helping hand with our lives should be, and how we think He should help us make them look, there is God smiling lovingly, and patiently waiting for us to ask Him what His best plan is for us.
Today, Andy B drove jo – his wife – to work. Something he doesn’t normally do!
But it really meant he could take a load off Jo – as a former trucker, 90 minutes of driving twice in a day is not even close to taxing, but for some it might be.
Three things you probably never thought you’d see in the same sentence would be “Dying Motors, Red Flags and Ever Dirtying Kitchen Sinks”.
And ten years ago you’d probably never have thought of Andy Berry, DingDash and Devotional Treasures in the same sentence either. But, God has a wonderful sense of purpose, and humour. And these three things led to this post.
My name is Andy Berry and, with my family we run www.berrybunch.family. And part of what my wife and I have frequently done is bring things that don’t necessarily fit together, to help tell a story. It’s our bread and butter – crowbarring unlikely situations and objects – into messages – to inspire and challenge us all to become more like Jesus Christ.
Endurance, Season 2, Episode 5
Steven introduces our theme this week – Keeping It Real
As usual, we have #GoDeeper with Andy B and #GoDo with Steven and Nathan.
Using James 2 v 14-17, Matthew 23 v 27-28 and 1 Samuel 16 v 10, Andy B goes deeper and focuses on being real, in light of the fact that God sees the heart.
Andy B found a great bible reading plan on YouVersion, that led him to 1 Samuel 16, and the account of David killing Goliath.
As amazing as that piece of scripture is, at 58 verses in length, David’s actions with those stones, only takes up 1 little verse.
As amazing as that, Andy B saw an ever greater act of heroism.
Samuel is an prophet, with an amazing prophet to speak for God to people.
With that comes the other side of a great relationship with God – actually having to speak what God is telling Samuel to say.
Enter Jesse and his sons!
Samuel is to choose the next king. But, having checked in with God, none of those sons are acceptable to God to become King.
Was Samuel wrong? Or is there a bigger picture to this?
Andy B imagined Samuel with a drop of sweat as the last son passed, and the answer came from God that, no, this wasn’t the right person to become King…
The book of James helps Andy B get real about some struggles he’s been having with being double minded.
It’s never easy admitting you’ve been getting something wrong. But there is a beauty of the conviction that comes from getting honest with God, and allowing the Holy Spirit to minister to us as God’s hand crafted people.
We are on a few different social media platforms because of BerryBunch.family. But our absolute favourite BY . A . MILE . is DingDash, created by the wonderful folks behind Back to Jerusalem.
DingDash is about making Dings (Dings and Dashes comes from the way letters were made in Morse Code) – when you reach 1,000 Dings (interactions), you get a little change to an icon that accompanies your profile – it changes to a little Ninja!
Ss we got nearer to our 1,000th Ding, I started to get a little nervous about what I’d want to be that 1,000th interaction; that 1,000th Ding; that move to Ninja status and our next post or conversation.
GoDeeper with Andy B, as he looks at how to stay pure.
He talks about the importance of not looking at things that are unhealthy, as it won’t lead us closer to Jesus.
And he explains the link between Philippians 4:8 and Matthew 18:9.