As I was driving to the library to start on my enormous amount of reading I have for Tuesday, I started thinking about feeling blessed. I've gone around saying how blessed I feel for the friends and family I have. I talk about how blessed I am for having a roof over my head, for having a new church family that has complete embraced me, for having a group of friends that make me laugh uncontrollably... So many blessings...
But... what I thought about today was how blessed I am for going to school and for having homework. WHAT?! I'm blessed by homework... really? No. I didn't hit my head or anything like that. No. I'm not going crazy. Seriously, I'm so blessed to have homework.
I have this incredible opportunity to come to seminary to study more about who God is. I get to read the Bible for homework. I get to study about the promises of God for class! I get to talk about what God is doing in my life during class, with my professors. My professors take time to pray for us during class. This is such a blessing!
Just looked up the word "blessed" on biblegateway.com. Yeah, I know. As a seminary student there are probably other more academic ways of doing this... :) However, in the NIV, it shows up 217 times! How awesome. Many times it's used as God is blessing His people for serving Him and for putting their trust in Him. That's the way it should be. We are blessed when we trust in the Lord.
It's not that I don't actually feel blessed by the other things in my life, because God has blessed me in so many ways. Too many to speak about here... but a major blessing is the fact that I am in seminary. It truly is a blessing to be here. So many would love to have this opportunity to study more about God's Word and to have the opportunity to study about how to better serve the Lord in the calling I feel on my life. I feel that I need to better acknowledge the blessings in my life, such as studying and such. Right now, I feel blessed to study. Maybe I won't feel this way tomorrow :), but right now I feel blessed that God has called me to ministry and has provided a way for me to do just that, even when it means reading an enormous amount.
Thank You God for Your blessings on my life. I don't deserve them at all. I want to fully embrace this blessing and say that I am blessed by it.
This is a verse that stuck out to me, while looking up the references for "blessed."
"The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything. " Deuteronomy 2:7
Amen.
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I'm totally with you, it just kind of stinks in those moments when the homework didn't get done or the tests are piling up, but then you remind yourself, "Oh yeah, the point of that assignment is for me to learn more about what God has been up to. If I did that, the grades aren't that important in the long run." Good post.
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