The days move fast. In the Psalms David asked God to teach His people to number their days that they may gain a heart of wisdom!!! I have two weeks left of classes for this semester, which means that I am two weeks away from having only one semester left of school. WOW. The time. I remember talking with seniors when I was a freshman, sophomore and junior and hearing them say how fast it goes and to not take advantage of it… but no matter how much I heard it until this fall I never really understood. God has definitely been revealing to me the deceitfulness of time. Truly there is not enough time in the day for us to be preoccupied with Jesus.
I am so humbled by the glory of Jesus (which is the glory of God, check out this sermon by Judah Smith) Over and over this semester I am brought back to my need for Jesus, I am brought back to a line in Psalm 63:3 Because your steadfast love is better than life my lips will praise you. Deut 30:6 God is circumcising my heart he is the one changing me from the inside out.
Since I began living at the chapel (that is what we call our apartment) there has been this house. This house is across the street from our apartment. For about a year and a half a man has been working on this house. Trying to make it fit to live in. Over and over I thought about how this man should give up. Just tear it down and start again. Seriously I thought this project was as hopeless as a rain dance bringing rain.
Little did I know that below the surface; in the basement the man had been reconstructing the foundation. When it came time to make safe the upper part after some effort he realized that “you can’t put an un-shrunk patch on an old garment.” This fall in a matter of two days the man tore down the old building and began framing a new house to go on the new foundation…what a metaphor for our life in Jesus.
God is constantly making us like Jesus (sanctifying us) Our God is a God that loves us so much that if we do not allow Him to wash our feet…that is the UNCREATED GOD to wash our feet, than we have no part in Him.
Church we have had a bath.
The Cross-was the bath
Are we allowing Jesus to wash our feet?
We still need Jesus daily
Jesus is all we need!
Somebody say Amen!
