rambles, packing & Hebrews, oh my!

I haven't done an update in a few days because I sit down and just feel like "blah" how am I going to get anything out of the next section in Hebrews without being so repetitive? I'm not feeling very insightful or knowledgeable or anything along those lines. Not feeling very focused or energetic the last few days. Not getting enough sleep. :(

I haven't been useful in my packing either. Got a few boxes packed, but that's it. I've been walking around the apartment like a chicken with her head cut off. Flapping back and forth and not getting anything done. And of course I get distracted.

That's when I'm here. I've been getting out of the apartment a bit. Spending time with my friend running errands and making faces at her baby :P Picking up her doggy that she adopted (from a shelter 2 hours away) and going pet-stuff-shopping. Out for coffee and visits and a movie afternoon. Useful to our friendship and her and my sanity, but not to my packing :P My Mom and Dad are coming up tonight after they get off work to help out (THANK YOU GOD!). I'm really glad to have them. Mom is SO amazing at organizing things. And this time I want some of her work/drive/abilities to rub off on me hahaha.
Thankfully we have about a week after closing that we still have the apartment so we have a bit of time if not everything is packed at once and we can take a bazillion trips via car if necessary :) So I'm not OVERLY stressed about it. It's not a far drive, so I'm pretty sure I could handle any stragglers.
I haven't done nothing. I did get those few boxes done. I've organized a bit - trying to get things closer to where they belong so they'll get packed and thus unpacked in the right spots. Went through old paperwork for recycling and shredding so I could fit the new pertinent papers in the box. Have done lots of laundry (speaking of which... I'll go switch a load now for some reason we keep making more :P) Things of that nature.
I really want to enjoy the time with my parents and not just be using them for their packing capabilities. I don't just want them to come, work, leave. I want to enjoy being together and do some fun things. Some day they'll come and visit just to visit... I hope.
James finally called to get a quote from movers and it looks like we'll be having them deal with just the big furniture, but the soonest we can have them is Tuesday the 28th. We can move all the smaller stuff before then so we have time to take care of the apartment after. It sucks that we can't really "move in" for 4 days after closing :( Well... unless we do an air mattress or something :P We'll see how it goes.


Moving right along...

Hebrews 3:15-19

"As has just been said:
'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your
hearts as you did in the rebellion.'
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed {note here says or disbelieved}? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief."

We don't want to end up like those that rebelled. They never made it to God's promise because they lost heart. Even though they were there and witnessed God's miracles. God got them out of Egypt and sent them out to the promised land. The Red Sea parting was on that route. God led them by a cloud by day and pillar of fire (or something along those lines) by night. And they still rebelled and didn't keep heart and believe. How sad! I think, at least in part, that's why we need to encourage each other (from my last Bible-study post) - even there in the midst of what God was doing, they lost heart. They rebelled. They hardend their heart. They didn't make it because they didn't believe even after what they saw.
We as humans have such a short memory sometimes. We forget all too easily. It's pretty sad.

I want to remember God's faithfulness even in the hard times, so that I don't miss out on the promise he has for me. I want to believe when people around me aren't so I don't end up like those that Moses led out of Egypt. Dead before the promise.

"Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be
careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also
have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard
was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
{'many manuscripts because they did not share in the faith of those who
obeyed'}" Heb 4:1-2

If you are a fellow believer, don't fall short of the promise! Press on in faith! God has a promise for us. :)

And I think that is a good place to stop and ponder for now.
I shall go work some more on the apartment and prepare for my parents arrival while thinking about this.