Life can be overwhelming
at times.
I’m at the point where I
have to make some big decisions and I have no earthly idea how to make them.
Recently, I’m having to make a decision about one of my classes: If I should
drop it or not.
Suffice it to say, there
is a very real potential that I could fail this class based solely on
attendance (miss three classes and you fail). Both of the times I missed class,
it was because of abnormal traffic chaos.
I mention this for the
reason that my indecision is pressing down on me. Typically, I’m a super
decisive person, so times like this make me crazy with stress.
There are pros and cons
to both sides of the issue I’m currently facing, but I honestly don’t know the
right choice.
Thursday night, I began
to pray about it. I asked God to show me something - anything, so I brought up
my Bible app and started looking at the ‘verse of the day.’
This is the verse that
popped up for Wednesday, February the 4th:
Philippians 4: 6-7
Do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
That definitely wasn’t
what I was expecting God to show me, but the verse stole my attention and
latched onto my heart. So often I’ve stressed about big decisions or even just
small things and I always forget to just give it all to God. I forget to reach
out to Him: He who holds my life and future in his caring hands.
I’ve let my wish to
control everything dominate and I’ve slowly pushed Him out of my decisions.
Normally, I would send up a quick prayer for direction and then plunge
head-first into something without stopping to let God have a say.
When I read those words,
they were a balm to my soul. My current dilemma is in his hands, where it
rightly should be.
That was my class's senior verse in high school!
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