Haha..Right!
Anyways, the real title of intention of this post was to tell you about what has been one of the sweetest parts of my experience up here at Covenant so far... Going to Chapel.
Each Tuesday and Friday, the students, staff, faculty and families of Covenant gather together for a truly sweet season of worship- through singing, confession, prayer, and the preached word. Upon getting here, the advice over and over again has been - Go to chapel! Whatever you do, go to chapel! And from two short weeks, I can already see why this has been the overwhelming suggestion of most who have been a part of the community here!
What I have found in chapel is like water to my soul! It has beautiful opportunity for what I learned in class only moments before to descend from my head to my heart and leave my mouth in the form of confession or praise. It has been a place of release, where I can be so honest with the Lord about the gross realities of my life and then receive and be reminded of his grace for it. It has been a place of refuge in the midst of the body and before the Lord when my heart is heavy. It has been a place of rest from the great busyness and stress that already weighs on me. It has been a place of refreshment where I feel like my soul is just filled back up with the glorious truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It has been a place where I feel like I can just get lost- in the most amazing way, where I lose myself for even a few moments and get caught up in the glory of God and the wonder of the gospel!
I am so thankful for the fellowship of the body here, and really so thankful for the church. I often take for granted that the Lord did not call us to himself on an individual basis, but in calling us to himself, called us into a body, a community. That there is never a time as I walk on this earth, that I am in it alone. That I am surrounded by a cloud of witnesses that have gone before me and a community of fellow believers right now.
It is my hope and prayer that as school gets busier that the priority of going to chapel and of worship would not fade in light of the rising pressure of reading, tests, and papers. That the Lord would truly impress upon my heart the need to stop and worship, and that he would remind me of all the blessings I subsequently receive from it. And that I would never take for granted, the deep privilege it is to have this season in my life, where several times a week my day can stop and I can take place in corporate worship, and be caught up in wonder, love and praise!
Have a blessed Sunday!
Amen, my friend. I read this post after writing about chapel on my own blog... I love it! Let's make sure to kick each other in the butt if ever we're tempted to skip chapel.
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