A Lesson from Freshmen
Take every ounce of self-esteem you can muster, mix it with your respectability and pride, and throw them into the hands of someone you don't even know. It's happening all around us, and it's not all bad.Here in The Bubble, we call it artist series. I can only smile in sympathy as timorous freshmen desperately seek to secure their female companion for the event. I know, I sound like I'm bitter about not getting a date to three artist series. I'm not. It is a deliberate decision that I am currently making. But that's not the point.
These unnerved freshman have served a purpose, though—they have reminded me of God's goodness. Hang with me. Through an amazing coincidence, I'm reading studying theology and Isaiah at the same time. How amazing it is that the God who has explained His thoughts are incomprehensible to us desires us to know Him personally! The God who has the power to destroy all humanity in an instant desires to use that power to show His grace and mercy to those who are willing to get to know Him.
Here's the connection: A guy will stay up all night wondering whether a girl he noticed will be willing to associate with him. Yet the omnipotent, omniscient Lord of Hosts begs His children to seek Him so He can reveal Himself to us. I think we'd be a lot better off if we would worry less about impressing people and focus more on God.
At 8:04 AM,
That is so true. How many times a day (maybe girls do it more than boys I don't know) do we stop to look in the mirrow and "check" how we look. Yes, I know we ought to look the best we can because we are representing our Lord, but is that what is really going through our mind as we do this mundain (sp) task? Then we do sit around worrying about what is going to happen to our life (I am just as guilty of that as anyone else out there) and totally forget that God has know all along exactly what amazing things are going to happen in our life. If we would just seek His face and lean on Him we would not need to have one ounce of worry or doubt, but we continually take back our faith from our all-knowing, all-powerful God, who wants nothing but the best for us. We just need to strive every day to put our complete trust and faith in God, who will do everything for His glory.
At 9:47 PM,
You speak truth oh my young Padawan. But it is an comment coming from one who a. seeks to constantly give a good impression of himself (this is not a bad thing) and b. doesn't have a girlfriend (for that matter neither do I which tends to negate the entire purpose of this comment doesn't it?).
At 5:03 PM,
Good thoughts, JJ. We should fear God far more than we fear man, or fear the lack of certain objects in our lives. What are they but idols and "the asbestos of 'other things'" that Jim Elliot prayed he would not be enslaved and watered down with? Thankfully, the same God we serve is the same God who put to fire wood and a sacrifice which had been COMPLETELY watered down (see 1 Kings 18:20-46). He can do the same with us, even as watered down as we so often are, if we will but call upon Him.
Fighting the Good Fight of Faith,
Noah
2 Cor. 1:3-5
1 Tim. 6:12
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