The most important thing that I have learned this week though is keeping up my relationship with God...about every teacher I have had, and everyone has spoken has spent some amount of time talking to us about this. the guy today talked about how in Leviticus 24:1-3 it talks about the lamp for the temple and how it should be taken care of each day. He also talked about how our bodies are the temple of God, and how as a child of God we need to take care of our light that shines for God. He talked about how if we neglect to take care of the lamp that is burning within us we make a shift in our ministry from ministry based on holy spirit fire, to ministry based on the strength of our flesh. It was really good.
the lecture speaker for this week, Mike Haman, talked about when he was in college he was in a long distance relationship with who is now his wife, and he talked about when this was going on they did not have all the technology that we have not so because of that, they had to talk to each other by snail mail. He said when this happened, he would get a letter from her and he would just sit and read it, and was falling completely head over heels in love with her. He said that even though he could not see her face to face or hear her voice, he was still getting to know her and fall in love with her. He said that the bible is God's love story to us and we should spend time reading it and getting to know him and fall in love with him just the way that he fell in love with his wife, he also talked about how could we love someone if we did not know them...how can we really love them? He talked about how to get to know God we need to read our word...
I really liked all the teaching on this this week, and I like that all of the teachers here really find it necessary that we as students jump into what God has for us and what we are going to do, but they want us to seek God and run after Him for ourselves, they are not wanting or going to find every way to make it easy for us. I know that this is going to be challenging, but I really feel that If we as students seek after God and run after Him for ourselves we will be closer and respect Him more. I feel like in my generation we are loosing what it is that God wants for us because there are so many things and times that we get lazy and just let everyone else do it for us, we let everyone else tell us about God and how we should hold a relationship with him but we do not take the time to seek after him for ourselves. So I really really respect CFNI for not making this easy but instead making it something that is going to be challenging and something that is going to be more difficult that just listening to everyone else and what they say to do. we need to let Gods word speak to us and tell us things about ourselves and interpret things about God that we would not be able to take in or grasp when we are just listening to everyone else's opinions.
I think that the reason that things here at CFNI are so amazing is because each of the students have to do this and are required to do this. this is not to go without saying that there are things that are not normal and not usual actions for people this day and age. but for those that seek God and follow God the way that is wanted for here at CFNI makes the spirit of God rain down like crazy here, and so many amazing things happen here as a result of that.
I think that as Christians everyone should take the time to really really get to know God. I think it is amazing training for what God wants in all of us. it is his desire to get to know us, and love us and do amazing things for us, so why shouldnt we take the time to do that for him?
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