As I drove through the falling snow to work this morning, I praised God that I could see another day of life. I arrived at my office and took a few moments to reorient my life around the Bible. On Sunday night I found God challenging my life. When you boil it all down, the Christian life really means understanding why God sent Jesus to earth, why God gave us His Word, the Bible, and why God sent the Holy Spirit into a Christian's life. In sum, my Christlike life is loving God with all I am and loving others from the reservoir of love that God has flooded into my life. I want to experience fantastic relationships with others and live a much ore fulfilled and joyful life. I don't just want the status quo. I want a great life! Only God can help me discover that, as it is recorded in the Bible in 2 Peter 1:3-11;

"Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to
us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God.
The best invitation we ever received! (4) We were also given absolutely terrific
promises to pass on to you--your tickets to participation in the life of God
after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust. (5) So don't lose a
minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith
with good character, spiritual understanding, (6) alert discipline, passionate
patience, reverent wonder, (7) warm friendliness, and generous love, each
dimension fitting into and developing the others. (8) With these qualities
active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day
will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master
Jesus. (9) Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you,
oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. (10) So,
friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off;
do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, (11) the
streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and
Savior, Jesus Christ."

I choose not to put if off. I will engage it now. My prayer is that students would experience the qualities of a close walk with God, one that is active and growing in each one's life, where no grass will grow under his or her feet, where no day will pass without its reward as each student matures in their experience of our Master Jesus. May God strengthen you to know Him better (Ephesians 3:17);

"I ask the glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you his
Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what it means to
know God."