Hey All,
First off I just want to thank everyone who has helped in supporting me thus far, it means a lot knowing that I already have people praying for me and for this trip. I am being challenged everyday by different things that I am reading for class, or learning in Bible study, or even hearing in chapel.
I don’t know if I have really appreciated chapel and attending a Christian college as much as I am currently. Maybe it is the unknown of this next year, but perhaps it is the faith that God is teaching me through all of my interactions, through all of my readings, and even through those life-learning moments that seem to keep happening in this last semester of college.
One thing that has stuck with me was a chapel just last Monday. The chaplain from Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) in Quincy, MA came with a group of students who led worship. Now if you know anything about Gordon, our athletic rival is Endicott not ENC, but because we are in conference with ENC and a Christian college, they (being ENC) believe that we are arch-rivals. False. We beat them every time. So the chaplain started off by making a reference to that by saying that he appreciates all of the times that they have been humbled by us in athletics, because in heaven the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. Good laughs all around, but what sticks out more is his message.
GOD IS ENOUGH.
Ok, God is enough, that makes sense, of course, God is my everything. Oh well that’s easy to say when everything is going well. But can you really say GOD IS ENOUGH in the wake of the earthquakes in Haiti, if you lose your family – is God enough?
He had us say אלוהים הוא די
which means “God is enough” (in Hebrew) in response to different scenarios, but only if we could believe it as true…
SO, he gave scenarios such as, “when I don’t make that grade I wanted”
אלוהים הוא די
God is enough.
“if I don’t get that ring by spring” – in reference to “every Christian girl’s” dream of finding a husband in college
אלוהים הוא די
God is enough.
Those were easy enough to say, but can you say it after “when all of my friends leave me”
“when my whole family dies”
“when I end up alone”
My friend Mark and I referenced it as “when you get Jobed” (in reference to Job) is God enough?
Again, so much easier to say when everything just kind of stinks, but when life is really tough, when God is all that there is…does that satisfy?? It should. But sometimes it doesn’t and that is what I have been thinking about. If I don’t raise all of the money, God is enough. If I don’t pass this one class that I need left to graduate (that is only offered in the Spring and I have to take an incomplete and wait and take again next year) GOD IS ENOUGH. If I get sick and can’t go on the World Race, God is enough. If someone close to me gets sick, leaves, dies, God is enough.
I feel like this doesn’t really do justice to the way my world was rocked by this chapel. But it was something I needed to hear, and would love to talk about more…
