I'm back in Virginia for my last semester of university. Wow. Really been amazing to see God work through me in these past four years. I excited to be able to work with middle and high school teens when this is done. So much can be accomplished when we submit to God's sovereign control in our lives. That is the spiritual focus that I want to concentrate on this semester. I want to submit and sow to the Holy Spirit. There are specific goals for this semester that I want to accomplish but after verbalizing them I realized that none of this is going to be accomplished on my own. I know Father God is sovereign and eternally faithful. I know Jesus is my Savior and Lord. And, I know that I have been given the Holy Spirit to work in me and equip me to work. I know in my heart that there is nothing more important than seeking the face of God. I want to know God intimately, enjoy Him and be fully satisfied in all His love and glorify Him in every single minute part of every second of my life. So if I track back all these desires and goals and thoughts for this upcoming semester leading to the close of university, the close of one of the biggest chapters of my life, I want to do so seeking and embracing intimacy with God. So I am going to! But I can't do that if I don't submit to the Spirit in my life, and what an amazing gift it is that God has equipped me to do so!! I'm so undeserving, but I guess that is grace right? The only proper way I can think to respond to this grace is in steadfast love, reckless abandonment. So to accomplish my goals this semester, I know I can only do it in submission to the Spirit, and I want all of it to be rooted out of an intimate, steadfast love of my Savior Jesus Christ! I am reminded of the prophecy in Hosea 6:6 "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings."
-sincerely, jlock
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