In seminary it can often be challenging to pull away and spend time with Jesus. School work can bog me down and dull my senses to the power of Scripture as I sit down to analyze it and do it with a deadline and for a grade. Everyone who works here exhorts the students to make sure they are spending personal time with Jesus so they continue to cultivate their relationship and not rely on school work alone.
I agree, but I sometimes struggle with that. You see, I love to "sit" in my school work. The most recent is a curriculum design project and teaching outline which I have done on the book of Esther. I have loved researching, learning and contemplating how to teach it. I have begun to really meditate on the words and truths of Scripture, allowing them to penetrate my heart. It has been joyful and has influenced my time with Jesus; in fact, it has become a significant part of my time with Jesus.
So I struggle with the separation of my personal time with Jesus and my school work. They seem to overlap. I made this comment to a friend, that I always get side tracked in my times with Jesus by what I'm learning in school. She simply replied that if God is in the design of the curriculum and wants me here now, aren't these things important for me to learn and meditate on? I love it. God is overall and that overlap is part of the beauty of his drawing me to what I need to study and learn from his word - in and out of the classroom.
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