Ramblings

I just attended my first class of my last semester, Lord willing, as a student at Boyce College. It is a little weird, but far more than that, such a wonderful feeling. I realized today that Boyce has served me well, but the time has come for me to be done and enter the next phase of my life. I am beyond being a college student, and I am ready to be at the big boy school, reading big boy books. I know from others who have gone from Boyce to the seminary, that the difference is big and very good, and I look forward to that.

Of course, I am not there yet, I have a lot of work to do to get to that next, much awaited phase of my life. I have three classes to pass, a piano proficiency exam to conquer, and a senior guitar recital to triumph over. This last obstacle seems to me to be the biggest, most difficult, and the one that will require the most discipline and hard work of any of the others. But so far so good, and I know, by the grace of God at work in me, I will accomplish what is before me, to get the grade and my diploma, but more than that, to honor the name of my good and wise Father.

I feel right now so loved by God, but not that I deserve it, which is possibly the best state to be in. I am not writing this as a perfected being obviously, and not as one who does not have problems rolling around in my mind. However, I write this as a person who seeks to wonder at the grace of God, and rest upon Him for the answers to every problem, and His hand to move in any situation.

Jesus is as sweet to me right now as He ever has been in my life, and that is in no small measure thanks to the friends and family that he has blessed me with. Friends that will encourage me and give me their wise counsel. Those who are reading this will know who you are and I thank you very much.

I woke up this morning singing the John Newton hymn, Let us Love and Sing and Wonder, and even though I'm pretty sure I have blogged about that hymn before, I figured I would include in this post for your edification.

Let us love and sing and wonder

Let us praise the Savior's name

He has hushed the law's loud thunder

He has quenched Mt. Sinai's flame

He has washed us with His blood

He has brought us nigh to God.

Let us sing love the Lord who bought us

Pitied us when enemies

Called us by His grace and taught us

Gave us ears and gave us eyes

He has washed us with His blood

He presents our souls to God.

Let us sing though fierce temptation

Threatens hard to bear us down

For the Lord our strong salvation

Holds in view the conqueror's crown

He Who washed us with His blood

Soon will bring us home to God.

Let us wonder grace and justice

Join and point to mercy's store

When through grace in Christ our trust is

Justice smiles and asks no more

He Who washed us with His blood

Has secured our way to God.

Let us praise and joint the chorus

Of the saints enthroned on high

Here they trusted Him before us

Now their praises fill the sky

You have washed us with Your blood

You are worthy Lamb of God.