Into the Routine

Morning prayer at 5:30. Faculty meeting at 7:30. Chapel at 8:00. Fairly routine morning. I have the morning free to prepare for my classes in the afternoon. We have lunch with Pastor Lazarus and Patricia again. They have been very gracious and generous hosts.

My class begins at 2:00. I finish some material on the covenant with Abraham, going over the story of the sacrifice of Isaac to show how God had worked faith in Abraham in this difficult trial to the point where Abraham was convinced that God would raise Isaac from the dead. I start on the Covenant of Works made with Adam in the Garden of Eden. There are some good questions and some good discussion. The class ends at 3:50 and I go to my room to prepare to preach at evening chapel at 5:00. I preach on James 1:9-16, on Yield not to Temptation. The Lord seems to grant a good measure of liberty as I develop the text on the outline: Reminder of Frailty (9-11), Reward for Finishing (12), Responsibility for Failure (13-16), and Recourse to Faithfulness (Heb. 4:15-16).

We have supper at the Yoon’s house. Mrs. Yoon has made a wonderful meal of open faced grilled chicken with melted cheese sandwiches.

There have been more power outages than normal this evening. When the power goes out here there is a power backup system which turns on one light in each house. As the power keeps going on and off, I run my laptop on battery power in order to avoid a power surge to my adapter when the power comes back on. At about 10:00 it begins to rain very hard. I have not mentioned that there has been an abundance of rain here these past couple of weeks. For the most part it has rained during the night and been quite dry in the daytime. Tonight the wind and rain are more heavy than usual.