Bethany Box

So, I want to continue a mini break from my series to continue just talking about what life has been like recently in a hectic and changing season, but a blessed season full of opportunities to serve God. I realise I have so much to be thankful to the Lord for, and I can’t wait to reveal some of the amazing testimonies He’s given me these past few months. The biggest way I can say thank you to God is through serving Him. That is why I am happy to give up my free time, money, efforts and resources to work for Him. God has set me free from addictions, has healed me from traumatic events, has removed sin and shame from my life and I am forever grateful for His unfailing grace to save someone as awful as me. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service” (NKJV). I don’t think that it’s unreasonable at all for God to ask us to give up...

 This blog has gone quiet for several weeks and so instead of continuing straight back into my previous series, I thought I’d pause to catch up on what the Lord has been teaching me and revealing to me in some very important recent life events. I think it’s just in the last few weeks that God has shown me and taken me on the journey of what it really means to be a shepherd and a church worker in a region where everything depends very much on just you and your husband. I thought I knew what hard work was over summer, but when the University Freshers season hit this September, the work has really begun and I’ve started to see the difficulties, challenges and sacrifices that have to be made in a way that I have never experienced before. The Lord has taught me that to be married to someone in a position of leadership over a church branch and who desires a Pastoral ministry means that those marriages won’t be the same as other marriages. For example, I went into marriage thinking that...

The next few entries is a bit of a fun diary about the motions of life currently (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and how I have been facing some of these challenges with the help of the Holy Spirit, but also the hidden blessings that I am beginning to see within. About six months ago I got married to my wonderful husband and with submitting to another person to follow them it led me from moving to London England to Glasgow Scotland. The transition from being a single woman to being a married woman, alongside changing to a new country and city has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride of challenges and struggles that I never anticipated. Firstly, marriage has been the most beautiful human relationship I have ever experienced. Secondly, I have grown to love Glasgow and the country of Scotland in such a small amount of time which has led me to realise I could never go back to living in London. Therefore, I am beyond blessed for these great opportunities the Lord has presented me wi...

 The next few entries is a bit of a fun diary about the motions of life currently (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and how I have been facing some of these challenges with the help of the Holy Spirit, but also the hidden blessings that I am beginning to see within. About six months ago I got married to my wonderful husband and with submitting to another person to follow them it led me from moving to London England to Glasgow Scotland. The transition from being a single woman to being a married woman, alongside changing to a new country and city has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride of challenges and struggles that I never anticipated. Firstly, marriage has been the most beautiful human relationship I have ever experienced. Secondly, I have grown to love Glasgow and the country of Scotland in such a small amount of time which has led me to realise I could never go back to living in London. Therefore, I am beyond blessed for these great opportunities the Lord has presented ...

  “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV). The greatest accomplishment you can have in this lifetime is to love. Why? Because when the disciples asked Jesus what the greatest commandments were He responded that, “…‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’” (Matthew 22:37-39 NKJV). The greatest task we can ever set ourselves on when on this earth is to love God and to love each other. But the reality hits that it is very hard and difficult to love another person. When I was belovedosing my now husband I thought that I knew all about love and that I would be the perfect loving wife because of the intense feelings of attraction I have towards him. Well after I said ‘I do’ and landed in a flat in Glasgow hundreds of miles away from anybody I had e...

There seems to be two clear choices in life: humble yourself or let life humble you. Most of the time due to people’s prideful nature life seems to humble us through hard and painful experiences. However, at times these painful and hard experiences that God allows us to go through to humble us, build our character, grow our faith, and teach us important lessons can also cause our hearts to harden and bitterness to sprout from within. This all stems from that pride deep in our hearts, but the danger is that “Pride goeth before destruction, And an haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18 KJV). Pride will always lead to our downfall and destruction. When you walk with pride in your relationships they will break. When you walk with pride in your business it will be unsuccessful. When you walk with pride in your education you will fail. When you walk with pride in your ministry it will be destroyed. To walk the path of pride is to follow satan because “The fear of the Lord is hatred o...

 I want my first post to be an introductory post into the motive behind this new adventure. But I want this blog to be as little about myself as the author as possible. My aim is for my life to be an introduction to others to Jesus Christ and not to me, Bethany May Eganda Achom. However, it is important to have some brief knowledge of who I am if you want to continue reading this blog, to understand the journey on how I got on this exciting path in life to use my calling to honour and glorify my Lord and Saviour. My name is Bethany, and I was raised with my brother on the back of a sheep and fruit farm in East Sussex, England, the home of my father and with my mother from Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-five years later I am now newly married to a wonderful man of God born in Uganda and raised in London, that I met through my beautiful church. We live in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, in a two-bedroom apartment as we embark on our new life as a family together. My husband is p...