Starting this week, I become an official student. I use the word "official", because although I make it my aim to study and learn various subjects as often as I can, I will now get to use that effort to eventually, Lord willing, obtain a college degree.
Tuesday marks my first day as a student of Moody Bible Institute through their distance learning program (that's online school, for those who don't know the lingo). Four years of hard work will earn me a Bachelor of Science degree in Biblical Studies. Do I know what I plan to "do" with such a degree once I have it? Not so much. But I'm hungry. Really, REALLY hungry. The Bible is so deep that I can never come to the bottom of it. Others far smarter than I have studied this book for their lives and never tired. It is living and active-- I'm continually amazed by the different layers and lessons that I learn from digging into the same texts again and again. I see new sides of myself, and more importantly, I learn more of God. His goodness. His mercy. His awesome justice. As I dig further into His Word, it becomes more a part of me, and I know that, in turn, as I apply it to myself, I am becoming more like Jesus.
To anyone in the wide world who reads this-- please pray for me. I am absolutely NERDY excited to launch into learning. I want to know Him more.
Tuesday marks my first day as a student of Moody Bible Institute through their distance learning program (that's online school, for those who don't know the lingo). Four years of hard work will earn me a Bachelor of Science degree in Biblical Studies. Do I know what I plan to "do" with such a degree once I have it? Not so much. But I'm hungry. Really, REALLY hungry. The Bible is so deep that I can never come to the bottom of it. Others far smarter than I have studied this book for their lives and never tired. It is living and active-- I'm continually amazed by the different layers and lessons that I learn from digging into the same texts again and again. I see new sides of myself, and more importantly, I learn more of God. His goodness. His mercy. His awesome justice. As I dig further into His Word, it becomes more a part of me, and I know that, in turn, as I apply it to myself, I am becoming more like Jesus.
To anyone in the wide world who reads this-- please pray for me. I am absolutely NERDY excited to launch into learning. I want to know Him more.
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