Clearly it has been quite some time and I am long overdue for an update...life is busy, but so good. Part 2 will be coming once the school year wraps up!
I am realizing more and more that I am a better writer than I am at giving speeches...but from the unprepared ramblings I gave tonight at the track banquet, it seems (almost humorously) like my main point came across: that God's plans are just plain better than our own. This has been a central theme for me over the past year. God has been so patient with me as I have doubted, hesitated, and then...slowly...still-not-quite-fully-surrendering-but-at-least-acknowledging...the simple TRUTH that his plans are just SO MUCH BETTER than anything I could ever come up with in my own agenda! I want to believe, proclaim, and live according to this truth. God is always up to something; all we need to do is be ready to jump on board for the ride and let him work!
How to sum this up? Well, God said this to Paul some time ago, but I'd have to say it applies to our lives today QUITE well: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Then Paul responded, "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (see 2 Corinthians 12 for context)
Over and out. Finish strong!
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