To where You are....

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason— a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.

A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles’ wings, but is a life of day— in and day— out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (seeIsaiah 40:31 ). It is not even a question of the holiness of sanctification, but of something which comes much farther down the road. It is a faith that has been tried and proved and has withstood the test. Abraham is not a type or an example of the holiness of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith-a faith, tested and true, built on the true God. "Abraham believed God. . ." ( Romans 4:3 ).--Oswald Chambers

Life lessons..

So I failed a test a few weeks ago. I was crushed...for about 2 minutes when it hit me that I'm graduating in 2 months and who the heck cares. In those two weeks, my prof kindly handed out an assignment in an attempt to let everyone make up a few points on these horrific exams. I plowed my way through it, barely understanding the assignment, and again being overcome by the feeling of apathy towards this and all my other classes. I turned it in, half expecting to maybe squeak out 2-3 points, and with a prayer, raise my D to a higher D.
I got it back today, with a shockingly high score.
With as much as I BS'd my way through it, it raised my D to an 89.

Gotta love college. Better yet, gotta love the art of BS--if anything, the most valuable thing I've learned in my 4 years here--my how I have honed my skills. And I still couldn't tell you what that exam was about. :)