For my birthday/christmas, my mom bought me a car stereo for my car. It connects to an iPod and plays it directly without a cassette adapter or FM modulator. I've been kinda looking forward to commuting because I could listen to sermons to and from school.

However due to the ice storm, school has been cancelled for the last two days. I've been cooped up at home since Monday night. But to pass the time, I've been listening to podcast sermons and reading the Bible. Makes me wish I could stay at home all the time:)

One of the things that has really been on my mind through this time is the idea of what am I doing with my life. One of the advantages of having my birthday on new years is that it makes it easier to notice and recognize the passing of time. The Bible says that our life is "a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes". I've asked myself if I am where I want to be. Over the break, I read this passage:

"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up."

What it means is that I need to be watching what I sow. I can't expect to have holiness, if I am not watching my life, what I consume through media, or not spending time with the Lord. It's caused me to examine how I spend my time, and to be more disciplined in my spiritual pursuits: praying, reading scripture, and reading/hearing good spiritual teaching.

Last Sunday, at the end of ECHO service, we broke up into groups of 3 and prayed for each other for this upcoming semester. My prayer request is that I would be more passionate about the Gospel. I don't want the Cross to become familiar to me, but rather to everyday be amazed by the deeper depths of sin and the unlimited heights of grace. I hope that through spiritual discipline I would be greatly moved again by this, and that this would allow me to reap holiness and righteousness in all aspects of my life.