Opening the owners manual

I'm taking this class on Thursday nights called After His Heart, which I absolutely love and have encouraged every one I know to take it. It has changed my life. I was reading my lesson for this week, and something got my attention in the lesson. That I felt compelled to share. It opened my eyes to the truth in God's word. It was talking about the time we live in and how people say that we live in a different time, old ways don't apply, women have more rights, and how we need to change with the time in our marriages. How many women live for themselves know, and are just looking for their needs to be fulfilled.The book was stating how wrong this mentality is and that God's way is always right. That He created marriage so only He truly knows how it should work and is, not was, meant to be. Times have changed, the houses we live in, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, the technology we have, and so on and so forth, but how God intended things to be has not. The word is very clear on how we are suppose to live. But this did not just get me on marriage, it made me realize how many times I've heard in a Christian circle, that times have changed, to reach people we can't do it the way it use to be, we have to be with the time, meet the needs of this generation. But I was quick to realize how wrong this statement is also. That even in this we have to look to God's word and do it His way. By telling people about God, loving them as Christ has loved us, living by example and letting them see Christ in us. Yes how we do this can vary, but it is not our focus. We don't have to introduce God with worldly things, we just have to introduce God for who God is. We don't need all the "stuff", we just need God, the blood of Jesus, and the Holy spirit. Those are the tools He has given us. If we really want to touch this generation, we need to look at how God's word instructs us to do, after all He created His children, doesn't He know what they need?

This brought a whole new meaning to my life in every area, Just the fact that God created everything, marriage, children, families, the church.....everything. We need to look to Him to do it right. I know I have read many books, asked many people, but from now on I'm going to ask, does this line up with what Gods word has to say. God created everything, so only He knows how it is intended to be, and how it works best. I know when we bought our van, we didn't know how to use it to it's fullest, the gps system, the dvd player, even how to move the seats around, we had to look to the owners manual to figure things out. We didn't want to mess things up, we would get frustrated trying to do it on our own, resulting to getting the manual out and realizing how much time we would have saved, and frustration levels if we would have just open the manual in the first place. Isn't God our owner and the Bible our manual? In every area of my life I am trying to realize that God created me, and I need to use His manual to be all that He has called me to be.