Thursday, May 3, 2012

Study


So this past weekend I had the opportunity to go on a retreat with my fellowship on campus, it was an amazing time of meeting new people, bonding with some of my kids (freshman) and just stepping back from the world of college studying. 

While at the retreat something the speaker said which I had heard before that I needed to hear again was that in our relationship with Christ as we grow closer to Christ we begin to desire to see the same things, and this is key. The reason why we are choosing to serve at Sonshine this summer is that we’re in love with God and that this way of serving is a way that we express our desire to serve God and see God’s kingdom come. And studying God and Jesus and who He is and always has been is something God desires for us and as our relationships with Christ grow so should our desire to study His word though the bible, character through Christian community and service. 

This afternoon I was with several other College Lifers (the fellowship I go to) and we were looking over the scripture that we were gonna go over for growth groups and this really stuck out to me out of Jeremiah 29, You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity” The amazing thing is that God promises is that when we seek him entirely, in prayer, in faith, in work and in STUDY, that he will arrive always by our side and deliver us from captivity, just as he did for the people of Judah and Jerusalem who were sent into exile in Babylon.   
  
And this is totally random, but I’m writing this in my apt living room and me and some of my roommates just got this song stuck in our heads, I’m just spreading the love.


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