Work never ends, it never stops, and it will never let up. If I've learned one thing in my life from my time in college, the Navy, and Seminary it is that I will never stop working. I've worked hard, I've slacked off, and I've done everything in between. This semester I have been taking a course in Hebrew which has been kicking my behind. The studying does not stop, between the vocab, grammar, and syntax that I have to dive into constantly I have little time for anything else. There have been times this semester where I did not want to study anymore at all.One specific time came to mind, I had been studying 75 Hebrew words for about 5 hours and for some reason could not remember them. I don't know why I was having trouble with them but I still do with a few of those vocab words. After about 5 hours I wanted to give up but I knew that I couldn't. So I prayed for God to help me with them. Instead of giving me the gift of tongues, (which would have been awesome) God reminded me why I was working so hard to learn Hebrew. I'm learning Hebrew so that I can better understand the Word of God, so that I can be a better pastor, and hopefully be a more effective evangelist.
This reminded me about the whole reason that I am here at Asbury Theological Seminary in the first place. I am here so that I can better serve God. When I was a youth pastor back in South Carolina I used to tell my youth that no matter what they were doing, (as long as it isn't sinful) do it for God. The Christian faith is not something that can be claimed and not lived. I would tell my youth that if they were skateboarding, to skateboard with God and tell the people that they were skating with about Jesus and their faith. I would tell them to go to school and do their best at school because they need to make school about God. Youth aren't the only ones that need to be told this either, adults need to be told this constantly. Think about it, when is the last time that you made your work about Jesus? Why do you work, do you do it because you need money or is it to serve Christ? Don't get me wrong we still need money in order to live in this society but we need to have a higher purpose as to why we do what we do.
Make your life an act of worship.
Alex Gebert
