lately i've found myself ruminating over some issues that ultimately exposed my lack of dependence on the saving Word of God. i've found myself pondering concepts discussed in "The Good Christian Girl." in a decade, am i going to end up as just an admin assistant and just super unmotivated because people told me pursuit of higher education or being a career woman was unBiblical? at the age of 35, am i going to still be single and living at home because people told me to pursue singleness and not set my hopes on marriage?
generally, have i submitted certain aspects of my life to the words of man over the Word of God? and then i realized, i was becoming dependent on the words of man rather than running to my Bible first for guidance. i've been feeling fatigued from tossing around all these questions of worry and doubt, of life decisions and career choices...feeling really dejected, lost, unmotivated...
yet J.C. Ryle puts it so plainly:
"There is only one answer to all these questions. A man must make his Bible the rule of conduct. He must make its leading principles the compass by which he steers his course through life. By the letter or spirit of the Bible he must test every difficult point and question. "To the law and to the testimony! What saith the Scripture?" He ought to care nothing for what other people may think right. He ought not to set his watch by the clock of his neighbour, but by the sun-dial of the Word."
people are good resources, but the Word of God is really all we need, beyond sufficient, something we can trust in and set our hopes on.. and it'll never lead us in the wrong direction
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