There have been a few things tugging at my heart this past week, specifically the fact that three days into the semester, I find myself at the very stress level from which I departed less than one month ago. I think we can all learn from 1 John 4:1, which warns: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.” We need to make sure that through our stress and suffering we are not idolizing or inflating factors in our lives above the Word. It is important to remember that God’s greatest gift to us, his Son and our Savior, died so that we may burden Him with our suffering. I thought this week about how I would feel if every person in Boulder complained to me about every source of stress in their lives and have concluded that I would want to poke my eyeballs out with the tail of a sphinx and tie my ears to the back of a Schwann’s truck. Just a thought. I’ve been reminding myself that the fact that I’ve been blessed enough to BE busy is a gift from the Lord AND that he would listen to me complain and suffer for me is an even more mind-boggling phenomenon. This isn’t well written; it’s just words flung onto paper. I promise, I’ll be more interesting with my actual study passage.
In the meantime, please pray for Haiti. I can’t imagine our entire country being flattened. It’s a dark place, and maybe we can pray that through this tragedy some salvation might shine through.
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