I didn’t have access to internet for the first while I was in Montréal. Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about. If you’re not interested in reading about details of my life, then simply read the first entry. If you are, then read the whole thing!I’ll be posting on a more regular basis now. Enjoy!  August 19 2006“Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear; Forget your people and your father’s house. The king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.” Psalm 45:10-11 This is a wedding song. This man looks around him while the wedding prep. is going on, or maybe while David’s getting married or after. It doesn’t matter. He sees it all, and he says in verse 9, “Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.” Then he carries on with verses 10 and 11. This song writer tells David’s bride, not to worry about her past, what she left behind, because David’s “enthralled by your beauty”.  It makes me think about God and how He acts toward us. He’s done that with many people in the Bible. Calling Abraham to leave his homeland, Moses to leave his royal status, all the prophets and so many people, simply to leave the path that they were on to go in a different direction. God called them to literally leave and go somewhere different, or He called them to stay there and become His speaker, no longer would they work as fishermen, but as fishers of men. God chose them, delighted in them and called them to leave their “people and father’s house” for His purpose and He doesn’t want them to look behind and go back where they were. He calls them to obedience, to honor Him, He is Lord. I think it’s good for me to read these words tonight. I’m leaving behind many blessings. It is hard to put aside the blessings I had when I lived in
Saskatchewan, knowing that I could probably go back and enjoy these blessings and relationships again for another year. But Jesus’ been calling my name and told me to try university, then led me to Montréal. It doesn’t seem so fun living at my grand-parents’ place and it’s going to be tough. But Jesus called me there, for now. And I should not look at my past and seek the old blessings. I should honor my Lord who called me to live with Him.  

HOW DID TESTS GO

August 23 2006

It’s been a couple of days now that I moved to Montréal. It’s been ok. I really enjoy walking around and realizing that I live in the heart of the city, I’m discovering that the old Montréal is really close and many other things too. Apart from the gay colors and pictures I see every where here in the “village” has it is called, I find living in Montréal pretty neat. My first test was an English one. I had to write an essay on… I can’t say! It’s top secret. But I literally sat there for 10 minutes, not knowing what to write and feeling like I was going to fail. It’s still the way I feel! But we’ll see. My argumentation was to my opinion very poor and I’d be surprised I succeeded. Whatever is the outcome of this whole university thing, I was reminded of a story in Judges 7. Gideon is going to war with 32000 men I think. The army he’s facing is way bigger than his but God thinks Gideon’s army is too big. So through a few elimination tricks the army is down to 300 men. “Great” must be thinking Gideon (were people sarcastic in those days… yeah, for sure). God says that He didn’t want the army to think that they had defeated their enemies by their own strength, so that’s why God wanted just a few men to go, 300. That way, He got the glory. God won the battle for them.

I went to that test knowing that I’d have to write an essay about something, but I didn’t know what it was. But I felt confident because I find it easy simple to write down my thoughts and the like. I told God I didn’t want to take my knowledge and abilities for granted, that He would bless. But I was not prepared at all. I came with confidence and God told me, “Gabe, I don’t want you to believe you succeeded because of your own strength, so it’ll be impossible in your eyes.” Indeed it was.  If I ever get it, really all the glory will be lifted up to God.