Joseph is a good name.
So I know I recently just wrote something, but since it's the beginning of the semester I am writing again to get ahead of the game. Just to get my semester schedule on track. I'm realizing I'm gonna have a hard time, because my classes are freakin hard. I spent way too long on my chemical engineering homework yesterday, because well, it was ridiculous. It certainly stretches me, most homework in high school I didn't try that hard because it wasn't hard to me. This stuff now... is freakin difficult.
Anyways, I'm realizing I need to really manage my time, and part of this will be to reinstate scripture study, which my religion class is helping to do a lot. I love the professor and I've taken him before. But the scripture study aspect will help me a lot. It's gonna take some uncomfortable time to get myself to study again. I say all this because for the reading I was reading in Matthew 2:13, where Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Christ, is told in a dream to pack up and leave for Egypt. It struck me then how I can have similar situations, (besides having his same name) where the Lord asks me to do things, that honestly I don't want to do. Do you think Joseph wanted to just pack up and move his stuff and pregnant wife to another COUNTRY. I mean, if it's anything like now, moving countries ain't like a Sunday walk. I'm not sure I would do that quite so eagerly. It's little things like this that can make a big difference, as we make little steps to do what may be an inconvenience, it shows the Lord, but very importantly shows yourself, your spirit, what is important to you. I personally need to make steps just to keep the very simple things in my life, praying and reading meaningfully the scriptures. Especially having a wife (who is wonderful btw) I realize I'm not just in it for myself anymore. Everything I do affects others. If Joseph hadn't moved Mary, her son, Jesus the Christ, the Savior of the world, could've been killed before he even spoke. How's that for intense? All joking and sarcasm aside, Joseph did a hard but extremely beneficial thing for his family that I'm sure was inconvenient. Next time its hard for us to open up a little app on our phone to read Alma, remember that.
Anyways, I'm realizing I need to really manage my time, and part of this will be to reinstate scripture study, which my religion class is helping to do a lot. I love the professor and I've taken him before. But the scripture study aspect will help me a lot. It's gonna take some uncomfortable time to get myself to study again. I say all this because for the reading I was reading in Matthew 2:13, where Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Christ, is told in a dream to pack up and leave for Egypt. It struck me then how I can have similar situations, (besides having his same name) where the Lord asks me to do things, that honestly I don't want to do. Do you think Joseph wanted to just pack up and move his stuff and pregnant wife to another COUNTRY. I mean, if it's anything like now, moving countries ain't like a Sunday walk. I'm not sure I would do that quite so eagerly. It's little things like this that can make a big difference, as we make little steps to do what may be an inconvenience, it shows the Lord, but very importantly shows yourself, your spirit, what is important to you. I personally need to make steps just to keep the very simple things in my life, praying and reading meaningfully the scriptures. Especially having a wife (who is wonderful btw) I realize I'm not just in it for myself anymore. Everything I do affects others. If Joseph hadn't moved Mary, her son, Jesus the Christ, the Savior of the world, could've been killed before he even spoke. How's that for intense? All joking and sarcasm aside, Joseph did a hard but extremely beneficial thing for his family that I'm sure was inconvenient. Next time its hard for us to open up a little app on our phone to read Alma, remember that.
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