So officially I have been accept for my practicum site in South Asia!!! I had a phone interview with the company on Wednesday, and then got my official acceptance on Thursday. Now all that is left to figure out is how to pay the $5000 that it will cost in the next few months.
The thought of money got me thinking about the provision of God. In the past, every time that I have needed to raise fund God has always provided. However every time I get a new thing that needs fund I freak out about the money. I get worried that I will commit to something then the money not come through. Even in talking to people about my trip I almost always will mention something about needing to figure out money.
Then a great theologian and an amazing friend of mine named Stephanie Obad preached a great message at youth group this last Friday. In our youth group we have been going through the book of Matthew since the beginning of December. We have really been engaging with the text and what it means to us in our everyday lives. This week's message was covering Matthew 14-15. One of the things that really hit me from Steph's message is that the disciples brought what they did not think was enough, and God made it exactly what they needed and even more.
That just amazed me! I have heard this story a million times, but to realize that I will never have enough in myself yet God still wants me. He wants my lack of ability. He want to take the things that I fail at and make them wonderful works of his hand.
So still I am sitting here thinking I have no idea where this money is going to come from, but I know that I can give it to God. This is not saying that I don't have to put some effort in, but it is saying that I do not have to sit and worry all day about the money. I can rest in the grace of the Lord because He will not let me fall beneath the waves just like He did not let Peter fall when he was trying to walk on water.
The thought of money got me thinking about the provision of God. In the past, every time that I have needed to raise fund God has always provided. However every time I get a new thing that needs fund I freak out about the money. I get worried that I will commit to something then the money not come through. Even in talking to people about my trip I almost always will mention something about needing to figure out money.
Then a great theologian and an amazing friend of mine named Stephanie Obad preached a great message at youth group this last Friday. In our youth group we have been going through the book of Matthew since the beginning of December. We have really been engaging with the text and what it means to us in our everyday lives. This week's message was covering Matthew 14-15. One of the things that really hit me from Steph's message is that the disciples brought what they did not think was enough, and God made it exactly what they needed and even more.
That just amazed me! I have heard this story a million times, but to realize that I will never have enough in myself yet God still wants me. He wants my lack of ability. He want to take the things that I fail at and make them wonderful works of his hand.
So still I am sitting here thinking I have no idea where this money is going to come from, but I know that I can give it to God. This is not saying that I don't have to put some effort in, but it is saying that I do not have to sit and worry all day about the money. I can rest in the grace of the Lord because He will not let me fall beneath the waves just like He did not let Peter fall when he was trying to walk on water.
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