The End of Term III!

Flip, a whole term just went by. There was only time to journal twice! What a term it's been.

Wahahahahahahahahha! cough-cough wahahahahaha!!

This is the gore and guts of what has been learnt this term:

1. Faithfulness in the face of adverse circumstances. Not faithfulness for reward (although that's nice if it happens), but being faithful because it's the right thing to be and this is God's character : "Faithful and True" (Revelation 19:11). But is very nice when it's appreciated! (let's be honest now).

2. Love vs "loving selfishness". I am still on a journey to discover self-less love - or love that gives without expecting; receives with thankfulness; and makes no demands but always hopes. DISCLAIMER: I am not there yet. By the grace of God we will be what God desires in us and delights to see us become! "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).
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3. Learning to fight. It's important to believe God, His Word, and to know that we can ask anything in His Name - that we can legitimately fight in prayer for what is important to Him and to us. If we are off-track, the Lord will tell us gently, but if we have a go-ahead to pray for something and to pursue it, then we must engage in warfare and persevere! We can make petition to God about things that are important to us and He will answer! In fact, God likes it when we ask for things! (get that! - kick out the lies that God is grumpy and grudges us the answers). "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints" (Ephesians 6:18). "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5:14-15). And more - get into the Word ladies and gents, it's all there!

4. Persevere: "stay your course" is the word the Lord gave me earlier this term when things looked rocky. This is what the Lord wants us to do when He's given us direction but there are difficult times - stick to it, stay your course, don't waiver, don't be shaken. [No verses here! Get your own.]

OK, apart from the heavy stuff and there has been so much fun! The dhindindee at Bond Street, followed by strolling around town at midnight singing to people for their birthday; Neels's surprise party (well done Vash!); lots of great Trip Events (go Neels & Dyl); Men's Min. hike to Thomas Baines N.R. (now called the hike to Thomas Paines...). And more!! Photos to come...

The highlight: was dipping under a waterfall during some "silence and solitude" with the Lord in a kloof below the toposcope on my birthday! (no photos to come... : -) and a lovely dinner at Bond Street the evening before!

'kay bye!