i run - forty days
Wow, I haven't updated since August. Haha reading my old posts about camp is a funny feeling. It feels like it was soo long ago. One thing I do miss about the summer is my tan. I'm back to Snow White. booo
I can't believe this semester is already over.
I remember thinking in the beginning of the semester that it was going to be the most long and painful one, but now that I reflect back on it, it's been the fastest.
This school year has definitely been full of blessings.
It's so comforting to know that the type of sufferings that God gives us are always ones that are meant for us grow. He is too good of a God to give us something that we can't endure. He knows about our capabilities and inadequacies too well.
I think the biggest struggle for me this semester was to remember the lessons that I've learned with my heart, rather than my mind. As Christians, we grow up hearing and learning about who God is--that he is a loving God, a powerful God, someone we should put our trust in. It's so easy to remember those things with our minds, but it's so hard to actually remember them with our hearts when we're put in a place of suffering.
Apostle Paul writes to the Philippian church,
"Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you." -Philippians 3:1
I love how God uses Paul to write this message to us. He acknowledges that we forget too easily and uses scripture as a means for us to fall back on. God is a loving God, in which he knows that his people are incapable of remembering the things that he teaches to us over and over again, so he gives his word to us. Goodness, how stupid we are as sinners.
I'm learning how to accept and adapt to the path that God gave me as a pk. I can't fully say that I enjoy this lifestyle considering the troubles that come along with being one. But he placed me in this position for a reason and it's my duty to glorify him in this situation just as much it is in school where I serve him most.
First Westminster catechism: The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.
