Food For Thought

Grades are important to us. Duh. You can observe this by going to any given library at Purdue at the moment. All of them are at full capacity, with people searching endlessly for a quiet place to study. As students, even us Christians go through this madness.

What would it look like if we put such a priority on God's word in our life, if we longed so much to read it that we would be willing to search for a quiet place just to sit down and study His word? What if our hearts were as devoted to knowing God as they are to knowing the material that's on the final exam? It's a bit of a paradox. Here we are, trying to learn something that is completely useless and will most likely not help us the rest of our lives. We will probably forget what we learned in a mere week from now. However, God's word is living and active. It does not change. It does not fade. It lasts forever. So why then, given the magnitude of the reality and importance of each, do we place so much more weight on our textbooks and notes?

I am equally guilty of this. When exams come, my bible usually goes down. I hope to make this finals week different, actually quite opposite than the usually. Instead of putting my bible down and picking up my textbooks, I hope to put everything else down, no matter what final is next, what grade I need, and spend quality time with my Lord and Savior.