Regenerated Heart with MORNA

In the past several months I have felt the urge to pursue getting a college education.  Giggle.  I am 56+ years old and a degree seemed sooooooo far away! Since my IBM 360 Computer programming course of 38 years ago (basically as archaic as that computer), I concluded I would have to start at square one: the very beginning.  But I’m too old for such an endeavor, I told myself! Nevertheless, I still felt a strong sense that I needed to get a degree.  So I prayed.  Researched my options. Asked questions. Prayed some more.  Then the building blocks started to come together one tiny piece at a time. Thus my journey began as December 31, 2008 I enrolled in a college program to earn my B.A. in Communications.  Today, April 29, 2009, I am three classes away from earning my B.A. in Communications! I can hardly believe it.  Yes, I have had my tush sitting a lot and my nose in the books more than I thought possible and my computer keys hot with actively typing essays, but I have literally inhaled and digested every course and enjoyed the process immensely!!

My most recent assignments included reading Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard/Phil Hodges and Failing Forward by John Maxwell. WOW what incredible resources! I highly encourage reading them. I personally believe every ministry leader should take their team through these books as a study and hold one another accountable to their teachings, especially Lead Like Jesus.

One of my courses required memorizing between 25-30 verses before the final exam.  As I carried my index cards everywhere I went to try to absorb the words of wisdom, I thought to myself why is it I have to be going to school to earn something in order to be motivated to do such activities? Why doesn’t my heart just naturally want to do this kind of work “just cuz?”  I guess, the key word in that question is the word “work” - huh? Rarely do we work at something just because it’s there to do. We lack the motivation to do work unless there is compensation and/or reward, right?

I remember a teaching one time long ago that stated that when our Lord mentions the words “good works” that it can literally mean “works done in secret.” 

No audience? No public reward? No “atta boys?” Not necessarily here.

Heaven, yes.

And isn’t that where it’s all at? We are heaven bound and will spend a whole lot more time there than we will on planet earth so isn’t that WHERE we want the compensation, rewards, and ”atta boys?”

I believe Heaven will be the ultimate in degrees - don’t you agree? 

Let’s press on together…