JM wrote a brief update on last week’s ladies’ retreat:
Thank
you for your prayers for us during these last several days.
In this case, a
three-day ladies’ retreat represented many more days of preparation (for Déborah)
and juggling of schedule (for all of us). We moved out to Camp Emmanuel in
Guazuvirá for these days, E and I commuting back and forth to her school in the
outskirts of Montevideo. The Lord gave great grace, and the ladies – almost
forty – seemed to really appreciate and profit from the teaching.
The
focus was on Bible study, with guidance given about things such as historical
and literary context. Déborah taught from several psalms (2, 23, and 67) and
from Romans 8 (the “Aconcagua” of the Bible!), trying to put the
passages into the redemptive context of the whole Bible and make the gospel
applicable to believers’ daily lives. One of our churches’ ladies’ group
provided the Gospel Meditations for Women booklets
for everyone who attended and also paid for the printing of study
materials.
One
of the ladies (who is going through great trial) approached Déborah and said
with tears (paraphrased):
“As I was doing the homework [from Romans 8:28 and
context], I realized that what God is doing in my life is making me more like
Jesus Christ so that He, Jesus, would receive glory – HE, the One who died for
me! I have been telling my children that ‘God will somehow bring some good out
of this.’ But I’m not going to say that anymore. This passage tells me what
that “good” is: that I be made like Christ and that HE be preeminent!”
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