Christ spared me from the pit called gehena. Hell. Life's just a walk in the park compared to what awaited me then. I'm suffering long hours. Last night I went to sleep at 4:30 after working 8 hours and studying all night. I was on God's strength, and He kept me awake, kept satan from tempting me to fall asleep. While studying and while at the wheel driving. Today I drove to Tampa and took the exam. In Christ's good faith I know I did well because the Holy Spirit recalls all information to remembrance at the Father's will. No worries, and let tomorrow worry about itself. Tonight I worked another 8 hour shift and now I have to finish getting 8 sources for tomorrow's composition II class. Wednesday is the date of the first Chemistry examination, and so I have to ask the Lord to do again what He did on Monday. I don't do these things in vain. Christ said to His disciples that He sent out first to the Jews, "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, yet harmless as doves." The Holy Spirit inside of me and the peace of God in all I do, being clean of darkness in the blood of the Lamb, is how I'm as harmless as a dove. But the things I'm learning now will only make me as wise as serpents. So that I can defeat what they know with what God's taught me. So these sufferings... I know why I suffer. And I don't suffer in vain in Christ's name. And they're not sufferings. They're discipline. The Lord allows them to happen. Knows that I'm flapping my wings in order to learn to fly. And He's always there with hands wide open ready to catch me in case I'm knocked down. It's my heavenly Father disciplining me as a child of His holy kingdom. It's out of love. So I'll endure it faithfully. No looking back, or taking my hand from the plough. No losing my savour, but being seasoned always from above. Not wavering, staggering, backsliding, going froward, or turning my heart away. I'll...
