Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Reflection
The toughest, and busiest semester of my seminary career is over with a big sigh of relief. However, looking back on the past few months I am so grateful for all that I have learned. I have been stretched and challenged and have grown more than I thought possible. This semester I have learned many lessons. One of the greatest lessons I learned was about surrender. Most of my life I have been motivated by the fact that I did not want to waste my life. But I have realized that instead of depending upon the Lord to use my life for His will, I was instead in my own effort attempting to make my life useful, afraid of letting go. I don't know where the Lord will lead me, or where he will send me, but all I know now is that the only way not to waste my life is to completely surrender it to the Lord. I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that each and every day is sweeter in growing closer to the Lord and being humbled by understanding more and more how much I truly do not deserve the grace in which the Lord so abundantly bestows upon me each and every day.
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It seems like that is a lesson I have still failed to learn. A good portion of this semester was comprised of me working a lot of hours and then looking back and realizing that I wasted the rest of the time I had.
To get to that point where the guilt and shame of futile living is replaced with a peace that I am God's child and obedient to what He has called me to do.
Scott...I would just say in response, to "it seems like that is a lesson I have still failed to learn." ...Surrender is a lesson that I might have realized this semester but I definitely don't think that it's something that I have accomplished. I think it's a daily prayer that we have to be cognizant of. A daily desire for God to use us, and for us to do not our own will but the Lord's.
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