It has been a busy week! I spent my volunteer time with the Grace Museum working on whatever they wanted me to do. I had two main projects:
The first project was installing shelving in their children’s wing of the museum. They plan on using them to hold artwork and sculptures that children create while there. Dont worry, that is where they wanted them. 🙂
The second project (and much more time consuming) was to catalog book donations to the Grace. One donor had given her entire collection of 2000 books. I counted how many were paper back and hardcover. I also had to record the title, author, and illustrator of each book.
The week went by very quickly, but it was exciting to give back to a museum that I had grown up loving and spending so much time at.
In regards to my devotions, John Piper writes in his book Desiring God, “I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than by faith to die with Christ to our seductions, that is, to gain a distaste for them because of a superior satisfaction in God.”
My goal for this sabbatical is to rediscover the immense joy and delight that God brings to his children. It is not just the things He does that should bring us joy, but who he is. Psalm 16:11 says, “You make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Our ultimate joy and pleasure is to be found in God and nothing else because it only makes sense. Why else would we seek fleeting satisfaction in anything else when God is allowing us to partake of eternal satisfaction in his presence? I am praying that God let this truth sink in and help me, and all of us, to begin living more like our joy is found in nothing else but to be in the presence of the Lord.