The Intuitive Reasonings of Jessica

This week in WIT, Jenny asked all of us how we had been doing in having a daily time alone with God. Some of us had been more faithful than others, but we were all making Christ the priority in our lives. Jenny told us that reading Scripture and praying every day is important, but that being a Christian is not a checklist. We don't check off going to church, praying, evangelizing, and all the other actions that set Christians apart each day. If we miss reading God's Word one day, we are not going to hell!

Instead, we are living in union with Christ. If we run off to class one morning without first spending time with God, it doesn't mean that the rest of our day is going to go wrong. That's superstition! Jenny said that because we are living in union with Christ, we filter everything we do, say, see or hear through the Bible all day long.

After WIT, I went to my first class of the day, Anthropology 205. It's an enjoyable class, partly fiction and partly fact. My professor has an animated way of telling stories, so I rather enjoy hearing his tall tales about prehistoric men millions of years ago. He weaves fictional tidbits into truthful stories, and throws facts into some of his tall tales. Because he doesn't really make any distinction between what is true and what isn't, I have to decipher things myself (I only put true things in my notes--I think the tall tales are just to embellish the facts).

Thus, on Wednesday morning right after WIT, I was listening to my professor describe the evolution of humans. I knew that that part was fiction, so I didn't write anything down. Then, he went on to mention that through natural selection, humans with larger teeth had developed in areas where food was hard to eat. For example, some areas have corn with small, hard kernels instead of large, soft kernels. He mentioned that even today, people in some areas of the world have larger teeth, and that really benefits them because of the foods available to them. I put that last part in my notes, prefaced with the phrase, "in God's providence...."

As I was writing that in my notes, I remembered what Jenny had said about living in union with Christ. Christianity isn't just a few things I do each day, it's how I live my whole life! Filtering what my professor said through the Bible is just one small example of how Christ is at the very center of my life.