I have been very distracted and busy for the past few weeks and have not updated the verses, but I am glad that I am updating now. What with the marking period ending and everything due, I had been very preoccupied and tired. But despite everything, I was still able to love the Lord, and sing, and pull through in joy. That is amazing. By His sufficient grace I was able to do so, not by myself.
What is also amazing is how His word had allowed me to stand and be sanctified in school. Without His word, through which He speaking to me personally, these last few weeks would have been very difficult, even more than it was. I enjoy how the Lord prays not that we would be taken out of the world, but that we would be kept out of the hands of the evil one. And He sanctifies us with His word. We are not to be saved from the world by isolating ourselves, but He saves us with His word and His sufficient grace everyday! Praise the Lord!
This week I've had to use a lot of my knowledge about the Bible in different situations, in and out of class. I've been trying to peacefully keep the Bible respected in class, and in that I really needed the abiding of the Lord, or else I would have gotten nowhere, stuck in arguments, perhaps. In the situation out of class, I just had to answer many questions about the Bible. Yet it is the out of class situation which scared me. I don't want to be known as the person who just knows a lot about the Bible (and I don't know a lot), but as a person who loves and is filled with Christ. I don't want to know a whole collection of facts or meanings without having the real Person--Christ Himself. If I read the Bible without the Lord, I would not be able to experience as much of Him. I am also afraid of pride, as many times knowing a lot of things brings in a lot of pride as well. But for all things I say, I pray that it is Christ in me who speaks. As for this week, if I have been too prideful, I am glad I can now just turn to the Lord and confess to Him. "[W]henever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away...and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." Praise the Lord!