Last night my wonderful roommate and I procrastinated homework by talking about how we don't understand how American college kids are a-okay with partying it up, how it still blows my mind that Stanford and UCLA, the dream schools of so many, are party schools. How the "smartest" in society can do some of the stupidest things.
Then in Torrey today, we had Reynolds. And he held us for 45 minutes after class technically ended so we could all keep talking. And it was marvelous. I'm always amazed at how God has this way of showing me the same thing multiple times in a row so I'll really get it. And how sometimes I say things I don't even realize are true until after they're said and gone.
We talked about how the American society is kind of on the decline, just like Roman society was in Augustine's time. And why is this? People have gotten complacent, stopped fearing the collapse of society, because things like that don't happen anymore, not now that we're in the age of information, now that we're so prosperous. Morals have gone out the window. Appearances are infinitely better than reality.
And we're lazy and bored. Just like Matt Thiessen sung out 5 years ago on mmhmm. We don't remember how much was put into allowing us to have cheap paperback books or the piano in our grandma's living room, or the laptop we idly type on, or lights and electricity and buildings and everything society has done. We take so much for granted, we forget what education is worth. And so students at Stanford and Biola alike are lazy when it comes to education. We look for the easiest class instead of the best.
It makes me never want to stop reading books, to be academic and intellectual for Jesus, and to change the world with the gifts He's given me. Of all people, Christians should be better. We should be the ones working for the Kingdom, not working for the weekend. But we so seldom are.
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