Anonymous asked: how do you like palomar? compared to bible college? do you hang out with people at palomar? how are you grades too? just curious

I actually like Palomar. It is where the Lord has me, and I am more than satisfied with the plans that He has for me.

When I was in high school, I was pretty prideful and overachieving with my grades. At the time, universities and scholastic achievements meant a lot to me. I was on my way with straight A’s all throughout my pre-college years (then came a 89% in physics in my last semester of high school thanks to Tiet. *shakes fist at Tiet). Then the Lord assured me in my senior year that I was going to Bible college.

The Lord planted Bible college in my heart in sixth grade. I remember it so vividly. I was watching a preview of Hillsong Bible College Australia, and my heart was beating fast and everything within me was stirred. “You’re going,” He said. In eighth grade, my older brother dropped out of studying for his master’s degree at SDSU to go to Calvary Chapel Bible College. I heard it again. You’re going. Again in my senior year of high school. You’re going.

As a senior, your classmates join in the habit of going around and talking about what colleges they’re going to and how those degrees will produce careers that will pay of those student loans. UCLA. SDSU. UCSB. How about you, Faith? With your grades you could get into— Calvary Chapel Bible College? Oh, um. What major? An associate’s in Biblical Theology. Oh.

Attending CCBC definitely required stepping out in faith time and time again. Because it is an unaccredited college, I couldn’t apply the benefits that came with my dad’s career in the Navy. So, you can say that Jesus Paid It All. Hahah, but seriously. I have no debt and whenever making payments looked hopeless, the Lord showed up. This is how I knew that the Lord wanted me in Bible college.

CCBC was such a blessing. The teachers were wonderful as they made it clear to all the students that they were all just our brothers and sisters in Christ. We called them by their first names, they were always available for prayer and counsel. Chuck Smith and Brian Broderson would come down weekly to hang out with us and preach the Word. The classes went through the Word verse by verse, examining every bit as we examine ourselves and our relationship with the Lord. And instead of puffing up with knowledge as I used to in high school, the Lord kept humbling me with the thought that I really don’t know squat. I was blessed beyond measure.

Then the Lord showed me that He prepared the way for me to go to Palomar. Every semester I have only had to pay about twenty dollars (not counting books). He was so gracious to provide me with a temp job at an office to pay for all my Palomar expenses myself while I went to school full time. My boss was incredibly gracious with my schedule for the season that I was there.

I’m going on my fourth semester at Palomar, working on finishing up my sixty credits to transfer to SDSU. By the end of this Spring, I will have achieved my bachelor’s degree from Bible college (because of my completed GE). Right now I am waiting on an acceptance letter from SDSU, but most of all waiting on the Lord to see if He even wants me to go to SDSU.

I don’t really “hang out” with people at Palomar, but I do my best to be a light. I talk to those who sit around me between classes. The Lord has given me opportunities to express my love for Jesus Christ in bold and rational ways in my English classes (which are all basically huge discussion sessions). Every time the Lord has me open my mouth, I thank God for sending me to Bible college so I can testify of Christ reasonably and unapologetically. Christians have approached me after class thanking me for saying what I did. Non-Christians have told me that I had them thinking and thanked me all the more. And I praise the Lord because He has sovereignly placed me here to be used for His glory.

My grades? 3.79 GPA. It’s the worst I’ve seen it, but I have been assured by my college graduate friends that I shouldn’t trip. So, I don’t. The Lord has been showing me that all that I do must be my personal worship service unto Him. GPA does not always gauge my devotion to my Lord (especially in college with merhh professors). So, I shouldn’t measure myself with my grades or with the line of degrees I could achieve. I shouldn’t even be defined by what university I attend.

I am a child of God.
Wherever I am placed, I will rest assured that it is for the purpose of living and proclaiming His Gospel, and loving everyone I meet with the Love with which Christ loved me.

Soli Deo Gloria.

PS. I am taking twenty units this Spring while working.
Pray for me :) You da bomb.