As most of you know, I am back at YWAM, and just beginning the School of Biblical Foundations and Missions [SBFM]. God has worked in incredible ways to provide for this school and to allow me to attend and I feel so overwhelmingly blessed to be a part of it.
I have already been on island for over two weeks and it truly feels like only a few short days. We started classes on the 12th and have been going at full tilt ever since. My typical week consists of about 20 hours of lecture along with worship, intercession, work duties and lots of homework! We are reading roughly 30 chapters of the Bible per week as well as several other books
simultaneously: Knowing God by J.I. Packer, Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer, When Skeptics Ask by Norman Geisler, The Compact Guide to World Religions by Dean Halverson, and The Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster. We will have a few more books added as the weeks progress. We are also writing essays each week based on our reading, outlining a teaching for a specific target audience, writing commentary of current events articles, and answering questions based on lecture content. All in all its a bit of a juggling act, but I am truly loving it!
Of course, being on Maui has its perks! I am currently living about a 5 minute walk from the beach, so I love to go down when I can find time, even just to sit and read. It's so amazing to look out over the teal water and just meditate on God our creator and His awesomeness. If there is one thing I have gained from these last two weeks, it is a renewed sense of wonder and 'fear' of God. Particularly in reading A.W. Tozer; he has such a way of breaking down the constraints we consciously, or more likely, subconsciously, attempt to place on God. His book Knowledge of the Holy, continually focuses on God's limitless power and magnitude. I have come to see more clearly that not being able to fully understand or comprehend God is part of what makes Him so wonderful!
Tomorrow is Sunday, Sabbath day, and I am very much looking forward to church in the am... speaking of, I should be off to bed! Thanks for reading, be blessed!
-Chels
"Our God is greater, our God is stronger. God you are higher than any other! Our God is healer, awesome in power! Our God! Our God!"
