Am Leading You, Step By Step, through your life. Hold my hand in trusting dependence, letting Me guide you through this day. Your future looks uncertain and feels flimsy-even precarious. That is how it should be. Secret things belong to the Lord, and future things are secret things. When you try to figure out the future, you are grasping at things that are Mine. This, like all forms of worry, is an act of rebellion: doubting My promises to care for you.
Whenever you find yourself worrying about the future, repent and return to Me. I will show you the next step forward, and the one after that. Relax and enjoy the journey in My Presence, trusting Me to open up the way before you as you go.
Sarah Young; Jesus Calling
^you know when you read something, and its just like a huge blast in the face from God?
that happens basically everytime i read this devotional. look into it. i promise itll be worth it.
as many of you know; ive struggled A LOT this year with college and deciding where i wanted to go and trying to find some college, ANY college that had everything i wanted. anywhere BUT Philadelphia Biblical University, the alma mater of my father.
North Carolina State? Accepted. Acceptance declined. I cried tears of frustration when I found out i got in, because i was so torn with figuring out what God wanted me to do.
so…. then I didnt have anywhere to go. started looking again.
Messiah College? Applied end of December. Still havent heard back.
i finally caved, and decided to look into PBU. i was REALLY scared of looking there, mostly because a TON of my very best friends are going/go there. my dad went there. i struggled with the concept that God wanted me, a very NOT typical person, to go to a college typical of the friends ive been blessed with.
PBU. Secondary History Education and Missionary Ministries majors. ability to double major. ability to student teach abroad. it was like opening up a dream come true on the internet. i had my application done within 15 minutes, and a letter that they recieved my application 3 days later. A letter 4 days later that theyd recieved my transcripts. a week later, a phone interview, and two days after that a letter of acceptance for fall 2013.
just to let you all know…. ill be attending Philadelphia Biblical University in the fall of 2013, with a double major in Secondary History Education and Missionary Ministry. 🙂
its funny how God works, isnt it?
once i stopped worrying, stopped letting things like friends and other people and minor things get in between me and God, He (not so shockingly) worked everything out. When i was trying to figure out my future for myself, i was rebelling. doubting his promises to care for me, always. Trying to take what is His for myself.
more and more, i come to the realization that MY LIFE IS NOT MY OWN. and it NEVER will be.
so i need to stop fighting God, the One who DIED FOR ME, the One who my future is SO MUCH SAFER with. the One who makes all things work together for my good.
romans 8:28 has been hardcore on my heart lately. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose."
and i would just like to let everyone know…. my God rules. He always has, and always will. <3
You make all things work together for my good <3
