This past two weeks have been really good! I thought it was going to be an absolute mess due to uni deadlines, but its been quite all right. The presentations went well and I've finished my assignment. I have lots more due after the Easter break, and lots and lots and lots of reading that I need to do. But its the holidays! I know I've already taken a day off yesterday, today, and will probably do so tomorrow, but hey, honours has been hectic. More than I thought it was going to be. But God has been gracious - somehow it doesn't seem too bad now.
Oh and my visa finally got approved! FINALLY! I've waited for more than a month to get it! Its during these times when I really feel like a foreigner. I've lived in this country for more than 3 years, and this is going to be my 4th year. It's been 'home' for a long time, but I'm always going to feel just slightly out of place. But thank God my visa has been approved! I can go pick it up from uni next week.
And tomorrow is Good Friday...
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus...
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Help me carry your death and resurrection like treasures in jars of clay, so that your death will help me die to sin, and your resurrection will help me shine light to others.
