God is good. I've learned through experience that God does answer your prayers. I've also learned that some of God's greatest blessings come in the form of unanswered prayers. Right now, I could think of a few prayers I've made in the past that I'm grateful to God for not picking up and letting me go to voicemail. I'm grateful because at the time, I did not consider God's plan for me and was only concerned with what I wanted.
I've prayed for a certain situation to work out in my favor because the outcome was something I felt I wanted more than anything in the world. If God had made this come true for me, I would not be where I am today: engaged to a God loving man, striving together to understand God more, wanting to learn how to listen to God. My heart was not in the right place when God led me to Josh. It was intimidating at first to hear from him that he wanted God to be in the center of his life. At that instant, I thought "well, this isn't going to last..." And I didn't assume that because I did not believe that there was a God. I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic Church, I participated in Lent, I was baptized as a child, and I did my first communion. I believed that there was a God, but I thought that my relationship with Josh would not last because I hardly read the bible, I prayed only when I needed something, and I didn't strive to be like Jesus.
What I've realized since then is that every relationship I've had before Josh was empty because it WAS NOT surrounding God. Now how do you like that? Lesson learned.
Have you ever learned something new that changed you? Have you ever considered the fact that you can never unlearn something? That is what my 2014 year has been about. It's been about change. Over the past year God had me exercise my patience, understanding, faith, trust, and my love. There is no way that I can be the same. My relationships have meaning, the music I listen to has meaning, the days I've been unemployed sitting at home have more meaning! I now know what it means to sing to God "You are worthy of all praise..."God is Lord of all! Yes, I've heard it before, but I feel it now written in heart the God is Lord of all! Praise be to God! And to His son, Jesus Christ! He is the master of time and space and holds the entire solar system in His hands, and yet He listens to our simplest prayers like "Oh Lord, please let Josh make the bus!"
Like I've said before, I am changed, but not done changing. I no longer want who I was. No longer do I want to hold myself back because of what I think of myself, instead, I want to focus on who God says I am.
God bless.
Have you ever learned something new that changed you? Have you ever considered the fact that you can never unlearn something? That is what my 2014 year has been about. It's been about change. Over the past year God had me exercise my patience, understanding, faith, trust, and my love. There is no way that I can be the same. My relationships have meaning, the music I listen to has meaning, the days I've been unemployed sitting at home have more meaning! I now know what it means to sing to God "You are worthy of all praise..."God is Lord of all! Yes, I've heard it before, but I feel it now written in heart the God is Lord of all! Praise be to God! And to His son, Jesus Christ! He is the master of time and space and holds the entire solar system in His hands, and yet He listens to our simplest prayers like "Oh Lord, please let Josh make the bus!"
Like I've said before, I am changed, but not done changing. I no longer want who I was. No longer do I want to hold myself back because of what I think of myself, instead, I want to focus on who God says I am.
God bless.
