Diving into the Word

To study...or not to study.  There is no question when you are studying God's word!  The first week of classes started this week on Monday, and I am loving every minute of it.  Spiritual Formation with Cal Macfarlane, all the way from Briercrest in Caronport, SK to teach us how to engage the spirit in our lives more effectively.  Being out of school for so long, since June, although it feels almost blasphemous to say this, I'm really glad I'm back in school now.  To sit and learn and soak up so much truth about God and about his spirit being active in our lives hardly feels like school, but the more I learn about Christ, and the life that he has for me, the more I fall in love with him.  Cal just speaks with such passion and intensity, that it's hard to be bored in his full-day lectures.  They are more like golden nuggets of truth that you pray you never forget.  Today we had part of our class down at the dock, and I was looking out across the ocean as I was listening to him talk about suffering, and making sure that we make room for suffering in our lives because then that is when Christ can work and is glorified.  He gives us opportunities to go off and meditate on Scripture by ourselves each day and let God's word soak into our hearts, so that the teaching doesn't just become words and head knowledge, but that it really permeates into our hearts. 
The wisest man who ever lived, King Solomon said, "Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding.  Search for them as you would for silver, seek them like hidden treasures.  Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord, and you will gain knowledge of God.  For the Lord grants wisdom!  From his mouth comes knowledge and understanding." - Proverbs 2:3-6