God's Mysterious Ways--Part I

I followed a boy. Yes, that's the noble motivation behind how I got involved with the Bible study that transformed my life in high school. Several of you have emailed to ask about the Bible study that I mentioned in my devotion that was published Wednesday, so I though I'd take you down memory lane with me for the next few posts.

I had never heard of Christian music until a friend of mine invited me to an Amy Grant concert in 1983. Even though I had given my heart to the Lord when I was 10, I was still living with lots of worldly views including rabid feminism. I'm not sure how that came about. It certainly wasn't modeled by my mom, but that's where I was until my junior year in high school.

Shortly after going to Amy's concert, I was invited to hear a local group called Cross. I have always had a "thing" for musicians (God is so good that I even got to eventually marry one!), and I developed an instantaneous and enormous crush on the piano player. Unfortunately, subtlety and coyness were not traits that my feminsist self valued. So I followed him--right into the Bible study that changed my life.

Two years later I remember judging some girls that I knew had come to our study in hot pursuit of another cute guy in the group. I was so spiritual by then, you see :), that I had forgotten all about that piano player. God gave that throat-clearing sound in my spirit, though, and I remembered. Oh! Me too! He is good to use even the wildly fluctuating affections of a high school girl to draw her to Himself. He is mysterious but good!

More about the Bible study/teen revival next week...Have a great weekend. Play with your children, give your husband a passionate kiss, lay in your hammock and count your blessings!