Matt Williams
Wendy
English 1010
September 30, 2007
Journey
So, I’m walking, out of Patterson, towards Central. I’m walking towards my favorite place on campus, the BCM.
I walk into the BCM, say “Hi” to Jeff, and go up into the loft upstairs. The environment immediately starts affecting me, just as it did the first time I came here. There is such a spirit of love in the building. Such a spirit of holiness. Not that any of us is perfect, but that most of us are Christians, believers in the One True God.
I sit and think of my place in the world, how it affects me, and vice versa. The world: it tempts me, tries me, seducing me to sin, again and again. Yet as I sit here, I’m reminded of my Savior’s love for me, and of how He told me “…fear not, I have overcome the world.” I’m reminded of my place in the world. My place is one of those lights in the darkness. I’m a Christian in a secular world, in a secular campus.
Where I’m going in the world, I don’t yet know. I could be a missionary, here in the States, or out in some country. I could be a pastor. I could be a high school math teacher. I have no freaking clue. So, for now, I’m going to go through life, enjoying it, trying to become less and less hypocritical, growing in Christ, searching for my place in this world.
4 comments:
I read about that in Bible Study the other day... kind of weird because I'm not really that religious at all. But okay, so we read this passage about how the devil is in EVERYTHING.. and everything in our society is just another way of tempting us. It seems so overwhelming though. To think that everything (cars, clothes, friends, education, etc.) are all a kind of idol we place over Christ is kind of mind-blowing. Kind of makes me want to say, "Hey... maybe stuff just happens for NO reason, OKAY?"
Well, Satan can use anything at all to tempt you to sin. He can even use your doing the right things to cause you to sin, if you allow yourself to get prideful of the things you did right and look down on others if they didn't do whatever it is you did right.
I'm not trying to offend anybody, but it's almost offensive to ME when people use the term One True God and other such assertions. I've always enjoyed it when people talk about their religion in a very subjective manner if they know their audience may have different beliefs.
Well, the gospel of Christ is offensive to most people. For most, it is crazy, stupid, foolish. For most people to follow it, it would mean to give up all that they have. I can see how it offense. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." I believe Christ when He said that. I respect other religions, but I'm not backing down my own faith to stop from offending others. My faith is going to offend people. If I offend somebody because of my faith, that's almost (if it isn't) a good sign that I'm doing my job.
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