{"id":2656,"date":"2022-04-26T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:07:12","slug":"translation-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2022\/translation-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“Trust more in God’s ability to speak to you than in your ability to hear from him,” my pastor said.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Little did I know that God would speak to me through a foreign language when I wasn’t able to hear him with my own.<\/p>

Since the start of high school, I had been a serious student, and this carried over to the university. As I pursued my master’s degree, I was engaged with schoolwork seven days a week because engineering did not come easy to me. Of course, it wasn’t schoolwork every waking hour. I was involved in college ministry, I tutored, I played sports. But learning was important to me, and it took a lot of effort to understand things in my classes.<\/p>

The commencement address for my bachelor’s degree from UC Davis was given by the Dean of the College of Engineering. He challenged the graduates to consider engineering education as a career. What he said struck me as an epiphany – it felt like that was my calling to become an engineering professor! The path to an academic career would, of course, require a Ph.D., and I applied myself to that task with the same seven-days-a-week effort.<\/p>

As the time of my qualifying exams for the Ph.D. program at Stanford University approached, I remember feeling weary. The intensity I had brought to my undergraduate, master’s, and now Ph.D. study was catching up with me.<\/p>

One Sunday afternoon, as I was driving, I was listening to a preacher on the radio. The broadcast was in Spanish, not my native language, but one in which I had developed some fluency. The passage was Exodus 20 and specifically the Ten Commandments.<\/p>

The preacher pointed out we do a pretty good job obeying most of the commandments (like murder, stealing, etc.), but not with observing a Sabbath rest. Oh my! Do you know the feeling of conviction? I can still remember the exact place in the intersection where I was driving when those words convicted me! <\/p>

The guidance from God’s word was blatantly clear: “You need to observe the Sabbath .”I struggled a bit on the way home with what to do next because I had qualifying exams coming for which I did not feel ready. How could I interrupt my ingrained pattern of always studying to take a day off?<\/p>

The struggle did not last long, and I’m thankful that I listened to God and started that day to set aside my regular ‘work’ to rest. I can’t remember what I did that afternoon to rest, but in subsequent sabbath days I did things like writing letters to friends; I tried my hand at drawing and watercolors; I volunteered at a home for disabled children, and many other things that were restful to my soul. Remarkably, the schoolwork got done. I passed my qualifying exams, and the weariness I had felt from seven-days-a-week ‘work’ disappeared.<\/p>

By and large, since that day, I have kept up the practice of setting aside my regular work for a day of rest. It has been transformational in my life, and I’m thankful for God’s kindness to remind me in a second language of His commandment to rest one day of the week.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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BJ Furman<\/b>
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