Yay New Semester

This is the requirement of the law that the LORD gave Moses: Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.
-Numbers 31:23-24

So true. Funny how this actually applies to us. In my pursuit of holiness because of God’s holiness, he says that if I can withstand fire (and I’m going to say that I can), then I MUST go through it. That means my future will look rewardingly painful at times. Stuff won’t always go ideally as I’d like, but there’s joy in going through the fire and trusting in his good will for us to be nearer to him through sanctification. And then he says that we need to be purified with the water of cleansing. I’m gonna say that means I need Jesus. “Then you may come into the camp.” Then I can be oh so close to my Father. Basically, this is my own interpretation of a passage that is literally actually talking about physical cleansing. Thanks, Holy Spirit.

In other news, God loves Berkeley and IV and the good people of the world, and it would be quite foolish of us not to be alert for his wonderful acts of grace that we will anticipate in prayer. This semester will be full of him for me, in everything! My studies, a hopefully more committed prayer life, and in relationships.

Sunday Jan 1 @ 01:07am