This being my senior year of college I have found myself praying more and more about my future. The future holds so many different changes that are coming my way. How will I support myself without my parents helping me? Where am I going to be living? How do I get a job? These questions have been continuously going through my head. I am sure that most students are going through a similar situation I am going through.
I find myself being so afraid of making the wrong decisions. Like there is one path that I cannot veer off of. I am finding out more and more through prayer and experience is that God works through whatever path you have taken in life. If you are actively listening to God, he can work with you whatever situation you do choose.
Since I am going to be a minister, I have often thought in my head, “What if I choose to work at the wrong church?” The more and more I think about this, the more that I realize that each situation is really as good as you make it. What I would challenge students to continue to do is to actively live in a relationship with God—he can make good in whatever choices we make. Observe how he is working with the decisions that you make. Try and look at the blessings you have received while on the path that you are on.
-Cody
Posted by Kevin Williams on October 14, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Unfortunately, questioning God’s will has had a way of insulating us. It sets our graze on our personal futures and asperations, but the question you touched on is a better question. “What is God up to in the world?” This question casts our eyes out instead of in and invites us to embrace God’s restorative action in all of creation. I, as you, believe God is working and we are to notice and partner with our God on the move.
Posted by Emily Berry on October 14, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Great post, Cody, and that’s a good point, Kevin, about looking out at what God is doing rather than focusing solely on where we are going, even if our intentions are good. I have found myself caught up in that, but it never gets me anywhere. We forget that there is so much more to the story than just where WE are supposed to be. If we are willing and looking, God will use us wherever we are. It sure does take off a lot of pressure to realize there isn’t just one right choice that if we don’t make it we are ruined. Cody, thank you for the reminder.