#1 Boaz Material "Moab or Boaz"

Hey y'all I am so excited to be writing the first official Boaz Material post! I actually wrote this in my blog journal last week but am just now getting around to typing it up. I have been trying to learn more and more about the Book of Ruth. I totally have enjoyed it, I just keep reading it over and over. It never gets boring.
I just want to mention one thing beforehand. A few weeks ago when I told my mom and sister God had laid this study on my heart my sister said how can I tell others about Boaz when I don't even have a boyfriend and I never have. I thought about that for a second and I told her this isn't about me and its not coming from me it's coming from God. Yes I have no experience with a true Boaz (except for Jesus) but I do have something better...the Bible! He gave it to us so we can learn. He shows us what Boaz is like. Better yet he shows us what a godly lady that a Boaz is looking for will look like. No I'm not "qualified" in everyone else's eyes but God can do this and I want him to.

Last year in January of 2012 I was reading a book that I can say has literally changed my life! I've talked about it before on here. It is called "Young Lady in Waiting"/"Lady in Waiting". I always had a desire to wait but after reading "Young lady in Waiting" I had a much stronger desire to wait for "my Boaz" and the Lord also gave me a desire to want to help encourage other girls to wait. The greatest lesson I learned was I can only be complete in Christ. No one but him will truly make me happy. Anyways a few months later I started this blog because I wanted to share my desire with everyone I could.

If you don't know me than I'd like for you to know I just turned 21 on June 10. I have yet to have a boyfriend and I've yet to meet and fall in love with my Boaz. I know that is rare to be as old as I am and never had a boyfriend. I thank The Lord for that NOW, all those years in middle and high school when everyone else had a new boyfriend every week I didn't. And I hated it. I struggled so much with my looks and wondering why no one ever liked me. I have liked so many guys in my life it is not even funny. I've fallen many times but none of them ever fell for me. That broke my heart time and again. But now I am thankful for those little broken hearts, if I'd had it my way I'm sure I'd have a broken life right now. Your heart will grow back stronger but you only get one life. Just one chance and its easy to blow it! So now I am just trying my best to do what HE wants and trust in HIS timing.

Ok now that I've said all that here is what I wrote the other night...

"Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife, and his two sons. And the name if the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-Judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there." -Ruth 1:1,2

Have you ever quit something when it got tough and then later regretted it? I'm sure we've all done this at least once. In the first verse of Ruth we see that Elimelech and Naomi left their home town Bethlehem-Judah when life got tough. There was a famine in the land, so they decided they would go visit (or sojourn-a short time) Moab for a little while. He took his wife and two boys from the place God had chosen for them. In verse 2 it says they went to Moab "and continued there."

"And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband." - Ruth 1:3,4,5

So my question is how did it start as just a short trip and turn into staying in Moab? And eventually dying?

When Naomi and her family had to deal with the famine I bet they began to notice Moab. I bet they thought it looked so much better than what they had. The devil was all over that as he always is when it comes to us being unsatisfied and seeing how "good" everyone else has it. He knows what to put in our path of sight to discourage us in our walk with the Lord. I want to interject ---don't let his good looks fool you.

I don't know what your struggle is but I chose this as my first post in the Boaz Series because if you truly want Your amazing Boaz, you can not give up and go to Moab. When the Lord showed me this it helped me so much. Sometimes I am so close to giving up that I don't know how I haven't yet. The devil tells me I am not good enough, pretty enough or skinny enough for any guy to notice me. I am learning to ignore him and his worthless advice but sometimes it still gets to me. But I am glad I know what the Bible says and I know other ladies who decided to wait for God's best and He blessed them for it.

It is easy to give up, give in, give yourself away to any worthless, worldly guy(s) which will later lead to regret...But it takes faith to hold on and stay right where God wants us to be...which is SINGLE!

I wonder how Elimelech's family would have turned out if he'd stayed in Bethlehem-Judah and endured the famine. I wonder how great and amazing your life can/could be if you would just stay single. Endure singleness.

Don't give up. Don't give in and go on "just one" date with some guy you KNOW is so not Boaz Material. Our hearts are weak, they fall fast and they fall hard! They also break just the same! If you wouldn't marry him you shouldn't go out with him. That is a trap from the devil.

I feel like we are in a famine...lacking Boaz's!!! I search and search but there aren't many out there. But nonetheless don't sojourn to Moab. It won't be worth it, and you will regret it. That little visit could turn into a lifetime! So do you want somebody from Moab, or do you want your hand picked Boaz!?  I know which one I want ;)

Boaz Material Series

Hey yall!!
I plan to start a series of blog posts about Boaz from the Bible. I recently learned about Him close to a year and a half ago and how great a man he was. It is a work in progress and i am still praying about what all God wants me to do with what he has shown me. Let me start out by saying Boaz is amazing. I pray this will encourage young single ladies to WAIT for God to send you your Boaz. We will learn about the qualities of this man. Also we will learn about the type of lady that will attract a true Boaz. Join me on this journey if you'd like :
In the midst of this study keep in mind
  -he is different.

To the world his kind of different is weird but not in the right eyes. So make sure YouR eyes are right  :)
This study will come from the book of Ruth mainly. I recommend for everyone to read it. I love reading it! It shows me that God can/will/wants to write beautiful love stories but we must obey.

Happy ONE year!

Soo yesterday was a whole year since I started this blog! Seems like it was just yesterday I was sitting at the kitchen table trying to come up with a name for it. I thought, brainstormed, prayed, googled and and wrote like 100 other ideas down on paper...but finally I chose From Pieces to Peace :) I have done 35 posts since I began this journey last year. I love love love blogging. The only problem is TIME. I wish I had more of it.

Right now I am finishing up my 5th semester of college. I just had one exam a few minutes ago, have another at 1:30, and one on Friday morning. Tuesday is my last exam...then it's no school until May 16. What a big break! NOT. That will start my last semester. 10 weeks later...I will graduate on August 2, 2013!!!!!!!!!!!! It has been a L-O-N-G year. For those that don't know I am in school to become an Expanded Duty Dental Assistant. After I graduate I will take 3 board exams to become a Certified Dental Assistant. Myself and 20 other girls and one guy started this program in August 2012. We lost a few along the way. We now have 17 girls in the class. There has been lots of drama, lots of laughs and lots of tests! As I see it all (finally) coming to an end I think I just might miss it a bit. I will most definately miss the friends I made! So thankful God put Gerry and Savannah in class with me. He knew we would need each other to make it out alive!! lol!   Sooo if you are maybe wondering why I am not posting much that is why. Life is crazy for me but I love it. I actually have some blog posts I have written in my journal I just haven't typed them up yet...

Very excited that I have had views in 10 different countries. Cool! this is a way I can reach people I will never meet here! I also made a Facebook page for my blog...if you have a FB you should go like my page and share it :)

So happy one year to my blog! Thank you to everyone who reads! it means so much to me when I know someone reads it and enjoys it~ Thankful God laid this on my heart! it has been a blessing to me, hope it has to all my readers as well.

~megan~

What Easter is to me-Easter 2013

Hope everyone has had a Happy Easter! We had a great Easter...great services at church, great food, great time time being together with my family! :)) My pastor preached about "He is not here" and gave many reasons why Jesus is not here (in the grave). Jesus is not here because: He is comforting the saints, he had to commission the saints (to proclaim the Word), he had to be at the conversion of the sinners, so he can intercede and plead my case, because he is coming soon and lastly because there is going to be a crowning of the Son. It was good! Earlier this morning, I got to teach my sunday school class about the greatest love story there ever has been. We read Matthew 27:1-56, as i read it I thought about how unworthy I was to be reading it! We are so blessed to have the word of God; I know I sure don't deserve it!!

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. -Matthew 28:6

 

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:

the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.-Is. 53:5

 

I asked my boys (in my class) to tell me what Easter meant to them. They both said it was about Jesus and that he arose...and candy. (can't forget candy lol) I want to say what Easter is to me... it wasn't until 4 years ago when I realized what Easter was really all about. In 2009 my family traveled to North Carolina to be with family. My cousin's church had a live resurrection play on the Friday night before Easter. At that time I knew I wasn't saved and God had been dealing with me for months! I remember watching when Jesus was bearing his cross and the towns people mocked and scorned him...One lady yelled "that's what you deserve!!" Tears came to my eyes. For the first time in my life I believe I truly saw not what HE deserved but what I deserved. Jesus didn't deserve what WE did to Him. I realized that i put him on that cross. Easter isn't about dyeing eggs, petting bunnies, or getting a new easter dress...it's about Jesus and the cross of calvary. It's about the fact that he did die but he didn't stay dead! He made a way for us to get to him! His compassion blows me away. I can't comprehend how Jesus and God could love this world, how he could love me! So thankful He didn't treat us the way we deserved to be treated. On that glorious morning He proved who he was to all the unbelievers! If you don;t know Jesus you are missing out. He said he would arise again and he did!! He says He is coming again and he is!! That in short is what Easter is to me.


I know I haven't blogged since January but I have been super busy with school and life. Tomorrow is the first day of April. Happy April Fools!! I started this blog last year in April! So thankful for it. I LOVE writing on here! I pray that I am a blessing. My only wish for this is that I say what God wants me to and not what I want to say. If God's not in it; it won't do any good.
-megan:)

    

"I just don't understand..."

Hey readers! I am sitting at school on my lunch break and just wanted to write a little something. I am the kind of person who wants to understand everything. It upsets me when I can't/don't understand why things happen or why things turn out the way they do. Since I was a little girl I have always loved Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding but in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths." It says don't lean on your own understanding. I do this a lot. I try to figure things out on my own. But I think the solution really comes down to just trusting God. We all have questions. We all have unanswered questions that stay in our minds everyday. Sometimes I just wish God would let me understand. I heard someone say a few months ago that God is not going to answer each question we have. He is God and he doesn't have to tell us why he works the way he does.

Quit trying to figure it out, quit trying to make things happen the way you think it ought to and lean on him..lean on that

• His ways are perfect <3 "As for God, his way is perfect..."-Psalm 18:30 KJV.
• His works are perfect "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."-Deuteronomy 32:4
• His will is perfect "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands."-Psalm 138:8

I LOVE Isaiah 55:8,9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." These verses are sooo amazing! He always knows best and he works all things for our good!! This is why we can not understand...because his ways and thoughts are so much higher than our own. We can't comprehend how great his plan is. Next time you just don't understand remember he sees it alot differently than you do. Trust in HIM that he is in control and knows right where you are, don't try to fix or figure it out. He has a plan even if it seems like it's totally crazy and makes no sense to you.

Sorry this is scattered but I didn't have much time :)