Thanks for your prayers for Friday’s chapel. Most of the students seemed to pay attention, so we’ll see if it will bear fruit. I pray the Lord will give me grace to deny self and take up my cross daily as well. I need to allow that sermon to continue echoing in my mind.
Today I spoke in Spanish class about diversity. I don’t like using that word since it’s politically worn out, but it captures what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to expose them to some of the diversity that I’ve seen in my overseas travel. I wanted them to see that people can be quite different from Americans and that we should respond rightly to those differences. We should also have the right attitude towards those near to us who are different. I used 1 Cor. 4:7 as my text, even though that verse has a different point in Paul’s discussion with the Corinthians. Who made us to differ from another? What do we have that we didn’t receive from God? Since we received all things from God, why do we boast as if we didn’t receive it?
It’s a blessing to be in a basement apartment that has a great view of a beautiful, colorful landscape out the windows. What a peaceful place to stay!
