of the week. I will admit I knew from the start of the week I was going to be to constant one at work because my co-worker took a vacation this week. I also had a lot of important things going on personally in my life.First sign was a video from a friend
that I needed and my friend even posted it on the day that I needed it before I did the thing that I was nervous about doing and about how it was going to turn out. My friend's message was right on about how I have been feeling the past months or two about my future and I just needed an encouragement and a different perspective of things and the video did that for me. There was a saying at the end of the video that, I'll admit, I use through the rest of the week when things were hard. The video was all about temptations but yet my friend was where my friend was suppose to be and my friend felt that way too. It was contentment that made my friend feel that way.My friend mentioned that yet we go through different temptations God is still there leading us to where He wants us to be. My friend also talked about accountability
and how important that was to take the path that God wants you to take. The saying that I said the rest of the week was: "This is alright. This is what I'm suppose to be doing." It was at the end of the video. I did write back and comment something that I needed to see wrote down too. That saying was, "God NEVER fails especially in His Timing." God knew what I needed at that moment and week.My friend posted that video on the day that I was going to a community college to meet with an advisor about taking classes at that community college. I saw it right before I went in the building for the meeting. During the meeting, I was calm, happy, and just felt at peace. I was confused more when I got out of it but at least I know more about the program I want to be in and I even went ahead and signed up
for 1 or 2 classes for this Fall semester. After the video and that college meeting because that was the other part I was worried about, my week seemed to be more calm and relaxing then it started out to be.Second sign was a letter that I got in the mail from my "Compassion International" girl that I sponsor. I was thinking about my "little" girl before I got her letter in the mail because it was her 17th birthday on the 10th of this month. I was thinking about how I forgot to write her a birthday letter and that I should write her one this weekend. I was also thinking about how long I have sponsored her and how much she has changed since then. I started to sponsor her when she was 5 years old and I was around 17 years old myself so it is kind of neat to see what that means and how long I have been sponsoring her. She is the smartest girl ever! I got her letter on Tuesday of this week and it amazed me at what she wrote in it.
In her country, they celebrate a month that is all about love called "Love Month" and I asked her how she celebrated it and what that whole month meant to her and she gave me a grown up answer. It was, "Love is to forgive someone who sinned against you." Then she challenged me by ask the question, "What do you think matters the most when it comes to love?" I'm still thinking about an answer to that question to where she can understand it at the age of 17 because that is a hard age for love. She also wrote, "If it comes to love, we feel in love for each other even when it hurts." There are only a few more things that I would like to write back to her but for the most part I think she got it. At least, she gets it better then I did at that age. I thought it was all about just having someone to be there for you no matter what that other person was like. You just wanted to have some fun and like your
friends but now I defiantly know better, believe me. God has been working with that on me.I also asked her, in her last letter, "if she had a love life, how was it?" She wrote back
, "I have no love life now days. I don't want to have a relationship until I graduated college." Again, here I was thinking at that age that "I wanted a relationship in college" but again now I see God had other life plans for me and I am loving those plans. It is just getting better and better. My plans of life are just growing so much. Her letter was a big encouragement especially after what I was thinking and was going on this past week.Third and last sign was the comment I left on my friend's video felt just like the right comment for both of us. My ideas and plans might be changing for the future. I just need to find out more about things and keep researching those things. For my friend, this weekend's plans changed. My friend was going to do one thing but now doing another. I know, and I don't want to speak for my friend so I won't, but God has something in better in store
for me and hopefully my friend. It made me see how things and plans can change so fast when you put them into the Hands of God. Yeah, we can plan things but like a verse says in the Bible, "God really determines our steps" and might I add "on how we get to where He wants us." We can plan everything about our lives but then God can just turn everything upside down like we never thought of because He has that kind of power and He knows us that well.I hope you can see and understand some of the signs that I saw this week. They might be little but they were right on time. It is amazing what you can see when you have your
eyes, thoughts, and heart focused on God all the time and giving everything to Him. I feel like this week as been a first for me in a long time where I just gave everything, not one or the other thing, over to Him and I got through every one of them still alive.
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