Search the Scriptures
There are days when I don’t get enough sleep, don’t have time to sit and eat a nutritious meal, and last minute things spring up just in time to stop me from having my prayer time and personal devotions for the Lord. Many times all this rises all before I get my first cup of coffee in the morning. The enemy knows he has but a short time to pack us with his biggest punch before the return of our Lord. For a wife and mother, he will attack us first thing in the morning, so that we will begin our day with frustration and full of negative emotion. This also happens to young girls as they wake up on the ‘wrong side of the bed’.
God’s Word says that the enemy is as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, and he is actively seeking to devour a young lady before she can protect herself from the onslaught of today’s culture. Yet, in most homes I have seen the culture trap isn’t from the world itself, it comes from their own circle of friends within their own homeschool or church groups.
Many people have said that the Body will not be scattered by the outside world, but rather from within itself. We need to be very careful to not compare our growth in the Lord against another Christian. We are not to compare ourselves with another person, when we do so we interfere with what the Lord has for us. He wants us to compare ourselves against scripture and grow in HIS grace.
Proverbs 6:20-22, ” 20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”
It is a nice thing to be able to have someone we can look to as our example, yet we must be very careful with that. Just as young girls desire to have a lady to look to as their example, adult women need a godly example too. Women need to have a godly example to help guide and mentor them. My three girls look to me for their example, yet even I look to another to help me stay on the right track. We will never ‘arrive’ in this life here on earth. There will not be a time when we will ‘have it all together’ until the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, until then we must always have a teachable spirit.
As we seek the Word for God’s guidance in how we should be living, we should have support from those who will lift us up to that level of accountability. If the people we are spending time with do not support our growth in the Lord, and cannot have a conversation with us about God’s Word without demeaning our decisions for Christ, then we must pray for God to send us 
someone who will.
2 Timothy 3:5-7, ” 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
I have been so blessed to have my sweet deaf friends in my life. Although I’ve been walking with the Lord for fourteen years, I have grown so much since I have known them. Their own desire to walk with the Lord inspires me to work even harder. There have been times when they have brought something to my attention in my own life that needed adjustment and I have needed to humble myself and swallow pride in order to keep a right relationship with them and our Lord. It has been a long time since I have had a friend apologize to me with such sincerity, yet I got such an apology just today that pierced my heart about my own sin. These is the kind of friends we need to have!
I have heard marvelous speakers before and read awesome books by seasoned Christian authors, yet having a person to talk to that can keep you accountable and mentor you to walk closer to Christ our Lord is a very special gift. When the Lord shows you who that person is, accept that gift as God is giving them to you. For such a gift is a very rare find indeed.
Be sure your mentor is someone that gets their own influence right from scripture, and not from the culture they may have been infected with in their own past. It’s sad to think that Christians will teach their cultural philosophies to others by words or actions, so we need to be careful who we allow to influence us.
Titus 2:4-5, ” 4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Every bit if mentoring we receive must be diligently compared with scripture. Acts 17:11, “11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Although some leaders may seem to know the Bible, we are responsible and accountable to God to search the scriptures to be sure we have the right information being given to us. Searching the scriptures is something we should make a habit out of. I know the Dixon family and Miss Charlene do such a thing. Each week they speak to me about areas of their lives and scriptures in which they are seeking diligently and it is such an inspiration. Quite contagious in fact!
Let’s all know what we believe and why we believe it, as we diligently seek to know the Lord’s answers for life’s queries.
Sisterlisa, I want you to know that I am so blessed that God sent you into my life. When I first met you, I was trapped in the middle of a fierce storm. I was asking the world to rescue me and I was left stranded until I met you. You mentored me and you used scriptures from the Bible to chase away the rain. Now I see the sunlight peeking through the clouds, it may be sprinkling sometimes, but I am equipped with an umbrella because of you. I know I may not make sense right now but I simply want to say, THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND! Not just a friend, but one of my closest friends. I consider you family and I pray we will continue to grow together as Godly ladies.
With love, Martha