There aren't adequate words to answer that, so we use our feeble lives as examples of His goodness.
And He is good, great even. Magnificent! Supreme! ..........
Still, He personally guides our lives, leads us and walks with us. A good shepherd. Amazing.
At the end of last year I was accepted into the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. So, about a month ago Ben and I picked up our lives in West Virginia and moved to Jacksonville, Florida. Naturally, we had never been to Jacksonville, we didn't really know anybody and we hardly had to lift a finger during the whole process. Thats how awesome God is.
We arrived on a Wednesday morning, we were accepted into the Arbors at Orange Park that afternoon (which was our first pick on places to live) and we moved in the next day!
Ben was able to transfer his job from Sears in WV to the Sears at the Orange Park Mall, which is about half a mile down the road from us. He started work on Monday.
It made me think of one of my favorite verses:
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths" - Proverbs 3:5-6
I've always so adamantly told myself, "You have to trust God, Jacinda. With all your heart." or "You better trust God if you want what is best for you.
But may I make an amendment to my previous understanding of the verse?
Yes, trusting and obeying God are vital, but God is just so far above me. He operates independently of me. His ways are not my ways, He created the paths; I don't. What I'm getting at is that God is faithful to direct my paths and I don't think my moments of doubt or fear or stupidity are going to change His faithfulness.
God directs my paths, whether I trust Him or not, it is the trust that allows me to see those paths.
So back to our lives. Ben is working at Sears, selling appliances. He has also started writing a book since we moved. I am going to school and I love it!
We are looking for a Church which is harder than you would thing seeing as there are millions of them down here. But we're not to worried. God will lead us where He wants us.
Thanks for the reminder Cindaz. God is good, wonderful, amazing, inexhaustible majestic, sovereign, mighty, all knowing, all powerful and beautiful! I can keep going, it blows my mind who God is and how little we are. We are doing 'crazy love' by Francis Chan for the second time, and I am still learning heaps about God and more about myself and how much I need to be madly and 'crazy in love' with him! Looking forward to reading about how much God is doing in your lives.
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