There's is more to life than this!

I’ve been struggling a lot recently with uni and with worrying about the grades I get and the job I end up with. It’s an on-going battle about a year ago I faced the same issue, however a simple truth that God is the director of my path helped me to preserve. I knew that whether I failed university or got the best grade his plan for my life stayed the same, all the mattered was that I tried my best!

That simple truth comes from Proverbs 3:5-6:

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths"

Lately I seem to have let that truth slip my mind and the worry has crept back in, there’s still more work to be done here. I realise that the time I was first struggling although I began to trust the Lord more and persevere with my work, I had missed the point. My desire was still the same; I still cared way too much about ending up with a decent job and having the perfect ending.

Maybe this is why I’ve been struggling again because I was striving for society’s image of a better life instead of embracing the one I have; the one that has been fulfilled by Christ Jesus. John 10:10 says that “the thief only comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that you may have life and have it to the full”. Christ has completed me, he came so that I can be made righteous with God, so that I can a have relationship with him. My identity is In Christ and my purpose is to serve the Lord, he has commissioned us “to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:19). My life is about living for God and enjoying his presence and showing other how there life can also be made complete. There is honestly no greater joy then spending time with my father in heaven and although life clearly isn’t always easy I know God is there with me, loving me and still directing my paths! There no emotion to describe this joy but Psalm 84 is a great one to read to help understand this…

“ ¹ How lovely is your dwelling place, 
   LORD Almighty! 
² My soul yearns, even faints, 
   for the courts of the LORD; 
my heart and my flesh cry out 
   for the living God. 
³ Even the sparrow has found a home, 
   and the swallow a nest for herself, 
   where she may have her young— 
a place near your altar, 
   LORD Almighty, my King and my God. 
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in your house; 
   they are ever praising you.

 ⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you, 
   whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. 
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baka, 
   they make it a place of springs; 
   the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength, 
   till each appears before God in Zion.

 ⁸ Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty; 
   listen to me, God of Jacob. 
⁹ Look on our shield, O God; 
   look with favor on your anointed one.

 ¹⁰ Better is one day in your courts 
   than a thousand elsewhere; 
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God 
   than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 
¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; 
   the LORD bestows favor and honor; 
no good thing does he withhold 
   from those whose walk is blameless.

 ¹² LORD Almighty, 
   blessed is the one who trusts in you.”

Peace out =P