My Hope!

Ok so I have not written hardly anything about the fact that I am interviewing for an intern youth ministry position in Georgia. Well that is on Thursday and I am really excited. This would be my first full-time job ever. But it is funny how God used this situation to stop me dead in my tracks. I was seeking the advice of several ministers for some pointers on the interviewing process. My aunt asked if I wanted to talk to her pastor. I said I would love the opportunity. He could not meet up with me because he just found out that he has cancer. Now that in of itself would have stopped me in my tracks but that is not what did. Her pastor in the midst of his own storm took the time to send me words of encouragement and advice.

I hope that one day I am as strong as he is in his storm when God send them my way, that I am not sitting there in my own self-pity and miss a golden opportunity to make an impact on someone's life.

After thinking about this situation for several days I am finally able to write something to how it has affected me but I do it with reservation because it is a gut check for me from God. But then I found the verse James 1:2-4 and it gave me confidence that it will all work out for HIS glory in the end.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4