God's greetings to you all. I am almost done and able to leave for break! I have written all my papers, and have all but one test done. The test is not due until Monday, and I think I am going to spend time on it Sunday rather than trying to rush through it today when I am tired and semi burnt out. I am really just mainly burnt out because of the twenty-five or thirty pages of theological papers I have accomplished in the past four or five days. I just have to sit through my two last classes, which seem pointless to sit through since my work for both of them is done and turned in, but oh well. Then I am headed to Kansas City to see my old college roommate Taylor.
I need some extra prayers for two reasons. One, I will be leaving St. Louis at four or four thirty which is the absolutely worst time to be on the freeway out of town. However, I think I am going to try a different route out of town and see if there is less traffic. I also need prayers because I am driving on an expired driver's license and I would prefer not to find out what kind of trouble that would be with a cop. So prayers for safe, traffic free, cop free travels please. I am staying the night in Kansas City tonight and then will head to Seward tomorrow. I am just so ready for a two week break, and plan on relaxing and enjoying my time off.
I am going to try to keep up with posting on this blog even over break, so keep watching for new stuff.
Since I am practically typed out, my thought for the day is going to be very short. I have one small confession to make first, and that is that I do not spend as much time in Scripture as I should. I try to do daily devotions and I always keep up pretty well on my prayer life, but just sitting down to read the Bible is not always my first choice. However, Chris and Stein are going to challenge each other to read the entire Bible next quarter. I do not think it is really possible but they say it only takes 72 hours to read the entire Bible. So we are going to try. However, I have been using Scripture for quite a few of my papers lately. The other day when I was working on my worship paper, I came up with three awesome Easter sermon ideas. I made sure to write them down so I do not forget them too. However, I was just blown away by some of the amazing new ways I was seeing well known passages just by taking some serious time to reflect on them. Then for my Hermeneutics paper, I made a huge exegetical discovery I had never seen before. It made me really excited to write a paper I had no interest in doing before. It also got me really excited to study and dive deep into Scripture and see all the awesome little theological things that pop out and hit me in the face when I actually take the time to reflect on the Word and what it is trying to say, rather than just reading it to read it. So I am going to start by reading it just to read it next quarter with the guys. However, then between classes, sermon prep work, and just personal devotional self study time I am hopefully going to start knowing not only Scripture better, but exactly what it is saying. All Praise be to Him who gave us His Word for us to have and cling to as the solid foundation of our faith in Jesus who is the Word.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you so much for Your Word. Help us to make time to read it, study it, learn it, and obey it. Let it strengthen our faith and guide our lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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