Switching Classes

Tomorrow I start classes at SPSCC for Fall quarter. I probably have the absolute worst schedule that I've ever heard of. I have a lab, evening classes, and a very spread out schedule. The advantage to being back: I have access to high-speed internet at the college (as opposed to dial-up at home).

Also, today at church, the youth group Sunday school teacher was gone, so we more or less had a substitute. Actually, we sat in on one of the adult Sunday school classes. My dad's adult Sunday school class. It was interesting seeing my dad teach, as I had never sat in on one of his classes before. His class is going through Ephesians, and today was Ephesians 2:1-10, which means that we went over what is probably one of my favorite Bible verses.

Eph 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {it is} the gift of God;9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.(NAS)

This verse says so much about Salvation, and every bit of it is extremely humbling. First of all, Christians are saved by faith in Jesus alone. It has absolutely nothing to do with anything that we've done to deserve God's favor. On top of that, without the gift of faith from God, we wouldn't even have enough faith to accept Jesus as our Saviour. Everything about our Salvation, and our lives, is really a completely undeserved gift from God. As a side note, this also shows strong evidence that Believers were predestined by God. God doesn't randomly give out the faith to believe in His Son, but He knew from beyond time who would receive the gift of faith and the Salvation that follows.