Logan's Lessons - 1

Reflection from 2024-25 - Part 1/4

Jul 29, 2026

The year at the Hebron Collegium (2024-2025) was a time of immense growth and learning for me, and I hope to share some of what I have learned from various trials, from the brothers who have walked alongside me through this time, and from time in God’s Word. A son must identify in his father, carry on his legacy, respect and honor him and his name, be himself dignified within the identity given by God the Father through the Word and through his earthly father. Where his earthly father failed him, he must find his dignity and value from God the Father. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I AM well pleased” is now about all Christians because we are members of Christ’s body.

Not only this, but to suffer at the hand of one’s father, even through his sin, is a chastening from God the Father.

“My son,
do not despise the Lord’s discipline
or be weary of his reproof,
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights”
Proverbs 3:11–12

To honor his father, a man must forgive his sins and give thanks to the Father for him while guarding the good landmarks that his father has set; he must keep his father’s teachings, bind them around his fingers, and write them on the tablet of his heart. Honor and dignity are opposed to shame.

“It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;
let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope;
let him give his cheek to the one who strikes and let him be filled with insults”
Lamentations 3:26–30

“It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine,
or for rulers to take strong drink,
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing and wine to those in bitter distress;
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more”
Proverbs 31:4–7

Let the reader understand: drunkenness is far more than merely wine but is a spirit. Drunkenness is to have your wisdom bent, to distort your ability to see, perceive, and understand the difference between good and evil. Christians are not those who are perishing nor those in bitter distress, for though we die, yet we live.

However,

“You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man…”
Psalm 104:14–15a

It is good to take pleasure in the gifts God has given, but do so in a spirit of sobriety and clear judgement.