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| Though I can already tell that I will have a VERY busy semester, I have found out some very good things these past few days.
I should be able to graduate in august without overly stressing myself out through a miracle loophole. This is still not a 100%, but it is a move in the right direction!!
I am pretty sure that I got the job as a para. I still don't have a schedule yet, but Helen seemed pretty confident that she wanted to fit my schedule in. Now the scary part is putting in my two weeks notice - I have never done this before!!!
God is faithful. This isn't even something that I discovered that i didn't know before. God didn't prove it to me either. I was beating myself up over stuff at church the other day, feeling that God has no reason to listen to the things that I want to pray for when I am so far away from him. He reminded me that he is faithful, even when I am not. And he is not burdened by that obligation to faithfulness. whew. | | |
| So, i was reading in 1 Corintians 3 today. I was doing fine until about verse 16-ish. Before that, Paul is talking about how he and appollos are not to be followed, only christ is to be followed. He likens themselves to builders, him doing the foundation of christ and others building upon it. The corinthian church is the building. Then he talks about the work of each man being tested by fire, and that while their salvation is not founded in that work, it is affected.
Now verse 16 and 17: Do you not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
What's the big deal, jess? Isn't that kinda self explanatory? well, maybe alone, but the context confuses me. Within this paragraph, these verses make it seem like the corinthians are arguing about more than just who has a better teaching, but also that following the wrong teaching could land you in the pit. Pauls response seems to tell the corinthians that they don't need to worry about false teachings, because those who build poorly upon the foundation of christ in their (the corinthians') lives will be judged accordingly. After these verses Paul tells them that is they think they are wise, then they need to become foolish in order to be truly wise. So if I think that someone else is following a teaching that is anti-scriptural, should I not be concerned? Should I do something to correct them? I think the saddest thing about this little study of mine is that I really don't know my bible well enough to weigh this against other scripture. But the least I can do is ask you.
So what do you think? Contextually, just what do these two verses mean? | | |
| I should have known that this had the potential to be boring. The sad thing is that this is a professional elective, and I am not learning anything that they haven't taught me!!
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| note: this question is NOT: "how can you get yourself out of this mess you are in?" Don't try and explain away the problem and how you intend to solve it. Submit to the Lord, admit your need, trust him to heal it as he would so desire.
Yes, Lord, I want to be well. | | |
| saturday: work all morning, clean nasto kitchen, bake cake all day
Sunday: work all morning, hopefully church, bake cake all day
Monday: get out of apartment, sleep in undisclosed location
Tuesday: move into house, begin unpacking
Wednesday: work, unpack more
Thirsday: work, take all cake jazz to newton, bachelorette party it up
Friday: decorate cake
Saturday: assemble cake, go to wedding, cut cake, dance, hopefully make it home to be ablle to...
Sunday: work, hopefully church, then rest. | | |
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