Just to take him at his word
Just to rest upon his promise
Just to know, Thus saith the Lord
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him
How I've proved him o'er and o'er
Jesus, Jesus precious Jesus
Oh for grace to trust him more
Normally I like to post my own thoughts and ideas in my blogs, but in the case of these past two weeks, Louisa Stead, who wrote this song, says it fare more concisely than I ever could. There's so much I could say about camp, about Terra Firma in general, about this first week of classes, about what I've been learning--but it would take significantly more time than I currently have. I'll cover a couple highlights.
At camp, I found it interesting that God was trying to teach me some of the exact same things that he was trying to teach me at camp last year. Part of me found this frustrating--I STILL haven't learned. Simultaneously, it was comforting; though I'm stubborn and slow, he hasn't given up on me.
Camp was fantastic. I kept having one revelation about God after another, getting to know him more each day. Thus it wasn't surprising that coming back to school combined with getting sick left me feeling somewhat estranged from God and the closeness I had only a couple days before. On Saturday night, sick as I was, I went for a walk to get out and talk to God for a while. I told him of my disappointment and asked him to teach me something new about himself every day, then pondered the fact that God is so unfathomably awesome that I could discover something new about him every day of my life and there would still be more left unknown. Sitting in church Sunday morning, God told me, to both my chagrin and delight, that he's ALWAYS teaching me something new--I just have to open my eyes and look for it. Since then, he keeps proving that even in the little situations, he knows what's best for me.
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