Dear Ones.

Today, is one of those days where you just want to sit on a couch and sit. Do nothing but sit and listen to your favorite song on repeat for multiple hours. In this case, this one is mine. Check it out, it is literally all I listen to, always. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iG2wUL1vTY


But, i got on my computer and checked my e-mail from a professor that will be teaching me systematic theology in Europe this summer. This is how he started his e-mail, "Greetings Dear Ones," 
Who doesn't love to open an e-mail with that greeting?! He goes on to explain things for the course and so on. The end of the e-mail says this, 

"I'm keenly interested in you being learned, worshipful young theologians, so I'm deeply desirous for you to grasp--if you haven't already--that studying theology is tremendously fun and heartening, so long as it does what it should always do: sing to Jesus Christ. That said, I'm really looking forward to our time together in Regensberg."

If those lines do nothing in you, read them again. I don't think anyone has every explain theology in such a wonderful and beautiful way to me. I mean yes, sometimes it can hurt the brain and make you so confused that you feel like an idiot for not understanding. But guess what, its sole purpose is to sing to Jesus Christ. Our sole purpose as His created beings is to sing to Jesus Christ. I think everyone should understand theology and grasp some parts of it. I am not saying become increasingly brilliant in it, but know what you believe and how to articulate it. Begin to scratch the very surface of the significance of what Jesus Christ has done and what He continues to do today. Then, our only response is to sing to Jesus Christ. If theology does not sing to Jesus Christ, it is "pointless".

My sister gave me this picture, so credit to her friend who took it!

All I want in life is to glorify Christ, to have my life "sing" to Him. And i am beyond blessed to go Moody and learn about how to serve my Lord and to serve others by way of that. I want to be diligent in my work and in my studies so that I can glorify Him. I wish with all i have in me that i could just sit around and talk about Jesus all day, and study my butt off just to understand. Not to spew it out on a test or paper, but to just grasp something of ministry and something of His brilliance. 

I get to study the Word of God for homework. Best thing ever. #MBI

Yesterday i talked with my friend Carly about how unusual Moody is. 

Not bad unusual, the good kind. I can sit in a huge auditorium and look around and be overwhelmed that each person in that room want to serve Christ as their Lord. Christ IS their Lord and they love Him. He is so real to each person and they have had an unexplainable encounter with their Creator as Savior, now all they know to do in response is sing to Christ through serving Him as He had planned for their lives, my life.   

All i know is that all i want to do for the rest of my life is to give myself as a living sacrifice for my Savior. To have my life sing to Jesus Christ in any and every way. All for the glory of God, that is all that matters anyway.