Radical Women’s Conference

Romans 7:15

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”

I feel this passage speaks to me more often than I would like, but I take comfort in knowing that this is part of following Christ. We are new creatures in him, but we still have to live in a fallen world. I have often thought about what  is really being asked of me as a Christian. What is it that God expects when we give ourselves up to him fully?  Is it this idea, of perfection. Although unattainable, is that what I should be focusing on, as the ultimate goal. Jesus was perfect. He lived a perfect life, never sinned, never fell short of Gods expectations for him.

I sin. I fall short often. I can not and will not ever reach perfection. So, am I supposed to learn to deal with this overwhelming burden of failure forever hanging over my head? I don’t think so! I think that we see ourselves as failures often times and God doesn’t see us that way. Jesus was God. His purpose was not to show us perfection, but to show us what faithful obedience looks like.

Hebrews 3:2

“Jesus is faithful to God, who appointed him, in the same way that Moses was faithful when he served in God’s house.”

God doesn’t ask for perfection, but for faithful obedience. Jesus showed us how are relationship is supposed to look like between us and God and us and other people.

Our Woman’s conference is coming up, February 8^th and 9^th. Debby Wright will be our speaker this year. We have titled this years conference “Radical”. One of the main things that she is going to be dealing with is what our lives should look like as followers of Christ. Debby has this saying, that helped put it into perspective for me. So I wasn’t dealing with the consent feelings that I was letting God down in some way. She says,

“If you are living life at it best, you’ll have nothing to lose, nothing to prove, and nothing to hide.”

If we are really living our life for God to be used by him there really would be nothing that could be taken away from us. We would already have the only approval that was ever needed, Gods! He is  aware of all of our short comings and failures. On top of all that, or perhaps because of it he still allows us to take part in his amazing plan to rescue this fallen world.

I personally invite all of you to come to this years Radical Woman’s Conference. Come and be inspired and comforted by our God as he uses this amazing woman to speak in to our lives and change us from the inside out.

Jenny