Something I have realized over the past few weeks is how happy I am to be a student again! Yes, I am staffing the school, but I feel like I am learning just as much in the lectures as the students are. =D Last week, Dan Baumann taught us and it was incredible! If you haven't heard of him, He's been in YWAM for something like 30 years and has one of the craziest testimonies of being a missionary you will ever hear. He told us about his book, Imprisoned in Iran, and didn't show us the YouTube reenactment in class, but I watched it on my own and I highly recommend it! There was so much rich experience he shared with us just in those 4 days of class. We have been friends for a while and I've gotten to know him pretty well, but I still walk away from hearing him teach with pages of notes! Revelations like that God cares more about our hearts and that we make the attempt than about the success or failure of whatever it is we are doing for Him. And that we can either move from a motivation of working for His approval (which is impossible to achieve) or from knowing that we already have His approval and simply loving Him back. And this week we have Christian Gonzales, a Harvard graduate currently going to Yale (I might have those two in the wrong order, but you get the picture) who is utterly brilliant and has such astounding insight into how we interact with God!! I could listen to him teach all day long. =) It makes me want to always be a student! I have also been struck by what an amazing situation God has placed me in. I spent the weekend relaxing with my students who are now such close friends of mine! They are actually almost all older than me, but neither our difference in position or age seems to matter. They love God, I love God, we are all here together because we want to know and love Him better, and we can just hang out and be the best of friends in the process!! One of them even noted yesterday that out of the staff I tend to hang out with them more than most. An odd compliment that I'm not sure is entirely accurate, but it was so good to know that I've made an impact in her life. =) In a way, it's true, though, because even only having known them a month and technically being responsible for them in a way, I have been increasingly amazing by their tender hearts before God. I can see Him moving in each of them and one of my greatest joys is calling that out in each of them and seeing them go even deeper with Him. I love seeing their giftings develop and see how God is the one who is teaching them, not me or anyone else. "The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance." Psalm 16:6 (NIV)
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