Nearing the End

I really should be study­ing for the test I have in twenty min­utes to which I have stud­ied none for, but writ­ing seems far more inter­est­ing. I sched­uled for my last quar­ter at WSU today! It’s amaz­ing to think that I am about to be free of study­ing unin­ter­est­ing top­ics, advi­sory boards, and vend­ing machine food! I have really become extremely apa­thetic to every­thing college-related recently. I would much rather be study­ing the­ol­ogy than wor­ry­ing about which sys­tems devel­op­ment life cycle I’m doing my project on. I am leav­ing busi­ness acad­e­mia never to return. The only grad­u­ate degree I will get will be in phi­los­o­phy or the­ol­ogy, and who knows when that will come about.

I’ve already out­lined a ten­ta­tive five year plan, but just to elab­o­rate. I do plan on mov­ing in Mr. Matthew Mar­tin bar­ring any obstruc­tion. I have learned so much from him, and I’m sure that expe­ri­ence would mag­nify that. Plus, we’re both at the same stages of our life: grad­u­at­ing and fig­ur­ing out where our min­istry is going. I hope that get­ting a full-time job will not suck me into the hole of nom­i­nal­ity and fol­low­ing after worldly pur­suits. Yuck. About Schmidt scared me away from all that.

I do want to keep my eyes on my min­istry before every­thing else. I’m ready to take my min­istry to a new level. Hope­fully I will have more time to con­cen­trate both on mobi­liza­tion and work­ing towards going over­seas. I’ve been meet­ing more and more peo­ple with a desire to reach the unreached in the Mid­dle East. That still needs much plan­ning and thought.

Dis­ci­ple­ship has proved to be my favorite new thing. It is such a joy! I’m work­ing indi­vid­u­ally with Andy Miller and Rob­bie Mey­ers both fresh­man, and I’m start­ing a small dis­ci­ple­ship group. I didn’t think I was ready to pass on what I’ve learned, but I’ve seen that believ­ing that is to believe a lie. I am learn­ing so much from these guys, and Matt told me that is what would happen.

Just when I had accepted sin­gle­ness and start­ing to accept the fact that I may be sin­gle for­ever, things start to change. That’s all the info you’re getting.

On a the­o­log­i­cal note, I don’t believe Romans 11:26 refers to the sav­ing of “spir­i­tual” Israel as does Romans 9:6. I’m lean­ing towards it being the rem­nant, but I’m not sure on that yet. Also the NPP is get­ting me think­ing, and I’m think­ing that we the Mosaic Law has no bear­ing on those in the New Covenant (Luk 22:20). Ok, bor­ing para­graph over.

Well, I have to go and take a test that I will surely fail, but I’ve accepted that. Oh, and note to self: clean the house. Pas­sage to dwell on today:

There­fore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be jus­ti­fied by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gala­tians 3:24–26

Post Test Edit: I really should’ve stud­ied for that test.