Just wait...you'll see.

My time between posts are way to much, but I always get brought back to here when I need to just think, pray, and get some thoughts out. I am 50 days away from graduating from Ouachita Baptist University, something that three years ago looked incredibly terrifying as I was going to be returning to school at such a University as Ouachita as a statistic. Through great strength from God and perseverance to make it through the degree program here, my dream is about to become a reality.

With that reality comes the question everyone asked someone about to make the leap from college student to college graduate..."What are you going to do after this?"

This is where I get antsy because I know what the Lord has called me to do in working with a Student Ministry and serving at a church, but where will that take place? When will it all fall into place? Will I be able to take what I have learned and put hands and feet to it? All these questions have been racing through my mind over the last couple months and I am sure they will be here for the next 50 days as graduation approaches faster by the day. I haven't until recently found myself consistently praying about this. I am not proud that my first response wasn't to just hit my knees in prayer, but it wasn't. God has been bringing me to a place where I can give up control over this area and submit that since he already has it all worked out, I can rest in that.

Doesn't make it easier, but it makes it comforting. Knowing that God has predestined where I was going to be serving at and to what area I would be in from the foundation of the earth now brings me great joy. I can assume that I am not alone here in wondering where God is in a situation or when is he going to act, but allow me to offer some encouragement.

He is in Control. He knew our beginning. He knows our end. He knows all that will be in between.

Those sentences give me a peace that comes only from the Lord and I hope it does the same for those that may stumble upon this to read. In my life recently, when I have been praying about my certain situation of where I am going after December I can't help but think of a child who gets in the car with his parents and instantly starts asking all kinds of questions like "Where are we going?" "What are we going to do?" "When will we get there?" and the Father turns around to his child and says "You just enjoy the ride...just wait, you'll see where we are going soon enough."

I am enjoying the ride because of the faithfulness of God in my life and the comfort that comes from His sovereignty over all of creation.

-Kyle