I was once a senior in Gracepoint, Berkeley...

As I was thinking about the senior discipleship retreat that is coming up this weekend, I began to think about my senior year. Man...a lot happened that year. Starting from moving back into the dorms, to joining FCS, to taking a yongmudo class, to leading c101 with a student, to taking the GREs, to working on grad school apps, to GLIVE! Indeed, a lot went on. On top of that, just the fact that I was a senior automatically made me feel like I was the experienced, seasoned, mature guy on campus...it made me feel somewhat powerful. But in a sense, I guess this is somewhat true. My words my actions had a lot more weight to it than before. The lower classmen probably will take my advice a little more seriously, or my actions a little more seriously. I had the potential of creating ripples in people's lives more than before...this realization it was a bit scary. Now if many of you don't know how I was in college, throughout college I often tried to be a goofball and just mess around, cracking jokes, and just live a jolly life. But after this realization I guess I started to really take myself a little more seriously and it made me take my future, my life, God more seriously. Knowing that my actions can have a strong influence on people it is important as a Christian that I really do strive to be blameless so that people can see me and glorify God through my deeds. In Romans 14:19-21 it states

19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

Anyways, it was a great year where I can really learn to take ownership over my words and actions and ultimately grow in my relationship with God. I am really grateful for that year and I am excited for all the seniors as they embark on their last year and experience what God has in store for them.