These last few days have been awesome, i finished Hebrews on Saturday. It was such a great book-really understanding about suffering and persevering. A big theme that i noticed in Hebrews is endurance and how both Jesus endured so much suffering for us and then us as Christians are called to persevere through life and the difficulties. Specifically in during the time of when Hebrews was written Nero was ruling and he persecuted the Christians so much-hearing what he did to them is so disturbing. And the author--who is unknown-we had lots of good discussions about regarding the author--if it was Paul, Apollos, Barnabas, Aquilla--was writing to the recently converted jewish Christians. There is lot of repetition in the book, which sometime was a bit difficult to chart but i feel like it really was engraved in my mind what the author was saying. And part of the charting process is application and i decided to write out my fears, and things that i worry about and then just pray into them. I still working on it but it has been so good so far-so much peace and reassurance that God is so good and help me through anything.
So something else interested is yesterday i took a spiritual gift tests and these were my results. 1. Missionary--i don't really think its a spiritual gift-but more of a lifestyle choice in bringing my spiritual gift to a different culture and sharing the gospel.
2. Mercy
3. Hospitality.
So i have been praying into that and seeing what i can learn from it--and it did definetly confirm my desire to be a missionary and be overseas sharing the love of God with others who are hurting and bring them hope.
A few other fun things that i have done this past week
--my roomate and i decorated our room :)
--a bunch of us watched Elf-such a good movie--Bye buddy
--Lots of us have been playing in the snow--there is an endless supply but its so cold so it doesn't pack the best but we still manage to make ice balls, and go sledding.
Today was such a great day, we had lecture on Colossians and there was a really powerful illustration at the end that really brought the book to life. Firstly a big theme in the book is that Christ is sufficient and he is in everyone--we don't need to work our way up to Him but he comes to us no matter where or who we are. The illustration was-Jeridan-the staff that was teaching the book brought to the front a huge plate of double chocolate cookies and everyone was eyeing them, and then he called up another one of the male staff members who was just standing in the front of the classroom. Jeridan went to the first student and asked if he would like a cookie and of course he said yes-and then he said to the other staff guy to do 10 pushups and once he completed them they received the cookie....this continued for every student even if the student said no they didn't want a cookie he still did pushups for them...he did over 200 pushups by the end. And by the end he was so tired, so weak, it was so painful for him to the pushups and he was just weeping. This showed how much Christ did for us, even for the ones that say no, Christ died for them, for everyone. The illustration might sound silly but it was really emotional-seeing him doing the pushups and struggling so much, and see the pain and this is so small compared to what Christ did. I am really looking forward to charting this book tonight.
Well thats about all that i can think about. I am so excited to come home, it will be great to see you so many of you!!!
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