The End Approaches

Tomorrow at 11:35 AM will mark the point at which I only have one more week left of Summer I. I'm taking two classes (one of which will not meet tomorrow, or said point would be at 1:35 PM), one of which I am making a solid A in, and the other could end up an A or a B. Summer does move a lot faster. I don't feel as bored of my classes as I would at this point in the fall or spring. Due to the extra speed that summer classes entail, each class seems to require less work overall. But the two new classes I will tackle on July 8 will come as a very welcome change.

Summer is really different. For sure, we are constantly developing and changing and being molded into the people that God would have us be as His Spirit works in us, but this summer is different. I feel as if, through a variety of factors, the Holy Spirit is bringing more things to my attention and working in me at a greater pace than that which I have become accustomed. Unfamiliar surroundings have made me see things in myself that I didn't realize before. And more and more I see how the Cross must be ever at the forefront of my thinking.

My sin is grievous indeed, but my hope is in the Cross of Christ, through which we are both redeemed and renewed. Over the past several days, I have felt extremely grieved, but through those days I have realized anew the forgiveness we are given and the truly amazing grace that God has lavished on us. What an amazing thing God did for us, that He would call rebellious sinners to Himself

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are." (1 John 3:1, ESV)

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