This week was hard as far as my spiritual life goes. I found myself concentrating more on school work & praying less & not even going to the gym where I usually pray while I run my usual 30 minutes on the treadmill. Of course through all these mounds & mounds of school work I always ask myself: WHY? As a follower of Christ, I would rather be a missionary & live in a third world country for the rest of my life & work for the Lord, let it be manual labor or evangelism? What's the point of writing papers on arguments that test the existence of God or what's the point of learning about the 5000 versions of Beauty & the Beast in my fairy tale English class?
Whether I realize it or not, God truly put me in college because I've learned some of life's & God's greatest messages just by living in a cramped dorm room & eating less than perfect dining hall food. I know in the day & age we are told to go get an education, to make ourselves successful with a Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, & even a Doctorate degree. However the last thing I ever thought when I went to college was feeding my spiritual needs, I honestly thought I would change for the worst & that my faith will be sufficient in time.
I know realize after already spending a semester & a month into college that that's why I'm in college. Jeremiah 29:11 says, " 'For I know the plans I have for you'- this is the Lord's declaration- 'plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future & a hope.' "
Although I'd rather be working in a foreign country glorifying God, I know I'm here at Presbyterian College to glorify God & to grow in the faith before God puts me in my place after college. God has my future in hand & I have to put my full faith in Christ while working on these seemingly worthless assignments in college. I have all hope in what God is going to do & I know it'll be worth all the while.
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