Name: Dennis Jameson (VP Academic Affairs)
Scripture:
“The Lord your God has blessed you…he has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” (Deuteronomy 2:7)
Reflections:
Lent is a time to change the way we think about ourselves and the world around us. Most of us can use an occasional attitude adjustment. Rejection, failure, disappointment, abuse, and critical people can weigh heavily on one’s sense of self-worth.
Imagine this. For four-hundred years the people of Israel were treated as things and objects and not as human beings. Children, parents, and grandparents for generations had existed only as slaves. Abuse corrupted the fundamental psychology of an entire people group.
Upon their exodus from Egypt, God initiated a forty-year pedagogy of the wilderness that involved a hopeless student population (homeless, destitute, legacy slaves), an unlikely teacher (a rebellious outcast), and an unconventional classroom (a desert wilderness). But the learning objectives were unequivocal. You are NOT slaves, you are Kingdom royalty, stewards over God’s creation, and children of the Most High God—made in his image and destined for eternity. They began their journey as slaves and arrived at their destination as conquerors charged to possess the land.
Many WJU students will spend about four years working through life issues and questions of personal worth that frame self-understandings. Who am I and what could God possibly want with me? At WJU, the goal of our instruction on these topics is unequivocal. You are called to be a royal priesthood, made in His image to become men and women of competence, character, compassion, creativity, and covenant whose lives honor God and serve others.
May God open our hearts and minds to experience his passionate love for us and to embrace our high calling in Him.
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