Post the Fourth

God and Physics

I was able to manipulate my Physics professor into letting me take the midterm on Wednesday instead of today, and here I am, doing everything I possibly can EXCEPT study for my Physics midterm. I'm so ill-prepared it's ridiculous, and even silently asking to pass this midterm is out of the question. So instead I'll ask God for something else.

God created the physical universe, right? I hope that as I study for this midterm, my intuition for understanding the physical realm wouldn't be the only thing that grows. I just want to be able to soak everything in and reflect on how creative God is for even creating Smufma and Smuver.

(Sum of Forces = Mass x Acceleration and Sum of forces = Mass x Velocity-squared over the Radius of the revolution)

I just get so frustrated because it's so hard for me to understand Physics. My only hope is that I could understand it so that I could understand more of what God created!!! It's annoying knowing God invented Physics and struggling with concepts. I just want to get it.

So that's that. If I can't identify unknowns to fill out a stupid equation for a not-so-stupid exam, then at the least, I would like to go to sleep at the end of the day knowing F still equals m x a. You know what I mean? I feel like I reject that God even invented Physics just because I don't get it easily (which I understand is completely irrational) but HEY, that's just what I'm dealing with right now.

The end.

Post the Third

These (in Hebrews 11) were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.  God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.  And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:

"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons.  For what son is not disciplined by his father?  If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.  Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may shore in his holiness.  No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.  Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.