31 Days of Brave (again)
I am writing this series because I believe that God is calling us all to be brave. Brave in the middle of the noise and the chaos and the mess and heartache and the uncertainty that we find ourselves in middle of in our ordinary lives. God is inviting us to respond with faith and not fear. To choose love and gratitude instead of worry and anxiety. This, and a lot more, is what I have learned it means to be brave.
And I don't just mean the bravery of David against Goliath or Peter or Paul. I am talking about the bravery of Hannah to give her desires to God, fully surrendering her deepest longing to Him. I'm talking about the bravery of Ruth to get up day after day after day to go glean in the fields to provide for herself and her bitter mother in-law. I am talking about the bravery found in weakness and at the very last bit of the end of our rope. Bravery in weakness. Bravery in neediness. Bravery while we wait. Bravery while we believe, despite everything we see, that God is still for us and we don't have to be afraid.
This is actually the second year in a row that I have chosen to write about bravery. I wrote this blog series 31 Days of Brave last year. I made sure that all the links are active on the landing page for the series and I added some "bonus material" (links to posts I've written between then and now).
This series was originally written as a Bible study for a small group at my church. I wrote a Bible study called "Along the Way" with one of my best friends over Christmas break of last year and it was such an amazing experience that I kept going, writing the material for these posts. It has been a long tough road but God has met here and my wish for you is that He would meet you in these stories too and that as you read these posts they wouldn't just be my words but that they would become a collection of moments that God reminded you of just who He is and the truth about who you are.
Here's where we are going:
Day 1 an invitation
Day 2 Hannah: brave in the asking
Day 3 Hannah: brave in my disappointment
Day 4 Hannah: brave in surrender
Day 5 Ruth: brave in the mundane
Day 6 Ruth: brave endurance
Day 7 Ruth: brave in my love
Day 8 Hagar: brave in the wilderness
Day 9 Hagar: brave when I feel invisible
Day 10 Hagar: brave when I am lost
Day 11 Gideon: brave in my weakness
Day 12 Gideon: brave when I feel un-brave
Day 13 Gideon: brave in the growing
Day 14 Joshua: brave when I've hit a wall
Day 15 Joshua: brave in my exhaustion
Day 16 Joshua: brave when the walls fall
Day 17 Nehemiah: brave in my anxiety
Day 18 Nehemiah: brave vs derailed
Day 19 Nehemiah: brave in joy!
Day 20 Daniel's three brave friends: brave in the "but if not"
Day 21 Shadrach Meshach and Abednego: brave in the fire
Day 22 Hananiah Azariah & Mishael: brave in faith
Day 23 Joseph: brave in the waiting
Day 24 Joseph: brave in perseverance
Day 25 Joseph: brave in God's provision
Day 26 Martha: brave in the distraction
Day 27 Martha: brave in crisis
Day 28 Martha: brave in work
Day 29 brave in my shame
Day 30 brave in temptation
Day 31 love responding to love
I am joining the community at write 31 days to write for 31 days in a row about what God has been teaching me about what it means to be brave. You can learn more about me here. I'd love to connect with you on Instagram or on Facebook (where I hope to figure out how to do the Live video thing... maybe?) and I'll also be on Twitter now and then. I have a Pinterest board for this challenge. I also have a Spotify playlist for this blog series.
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