on bible college

Post by The Gospel Coalition.

geek talk! hahahahaha really geeky. but powerful theologians engaged in ?healthy debate. haha just funny because this is similar to what we have to present on in class next week. gasp

honestly, its been an amazing experience going through the classes that ive been going through at BGST. im so, so thankful to be able to have this opportunity to study the bible & theology in this manner. it has just opened my eyes to an entirely new world, its like the bible come alive. i shy away from telling too many people about it because im afraid that people would associate it with being holy/knowing my bible really well which is far from the truth. there is so much i dont know and so much ive yet to learn and taking a course in this college only teaches you the principles. in order to know your bible well hours and hours have to spent reading it, meditating upon it, analysing it, piecing it together, memorising it. text by text. and i havent even read the entire bible yet. and some bits that ive read - ive no clue about it. 

and studying the bible in such an intense manner does not automatically equate to knowing God in the same intimate manner, and does not necessarily equate to godly, christ-like behaviour, or living a life worth of the Lord. 

but tonight, im simply in awe of how much the bible contains and how much one can glean from it. and how honestly, despite the fact that so many things point to human destruction and how things could never have worked out - it did, because God was always with us and God always had this plan of salvation and God just has it all worked out. 

just like how j&i could never have worked out (never - if you ask me in the two years we were not tog, i was really against it), we did. and i can only say that God is the author and source and perfector of our relationship. i sidetrack, but i am thankful despite the fact that j is away and we are barely talking because reception is terrible ): 

but just like how jesus is the author and perfector of our faith. just like how God has caused us to be born again to a living hope, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading. just like how He has called us his beloved children. He will keep us from now til forevermore.