Ready Now.

Well, this is the first free moment I have had in weeks...or so it seems. It's odd to just sit...but oh so necessary. Being busy all the time just comes naturally to me, so it is nearly impossible for me to be ok when I'm not...in fact, my leg is bouncing right now so that I can still be productive. To be honest, even though this semester has been much more busy than I anticipated, I've been "sitting" in a different form for weeks.

This sitting involves waiting on the LORD's timing...patience is hard. I would leave on a plane, train, or automobile (no, I haven't seen the movie) in an instant if He opened a door. But for now, I'm here...where He has sovereignly placed me...to do His work in a place where I am so uncomfortable. Even though this is rough, it is most certainly building my holy discontent deep within me...so it's bittersweet. And I am joyful. Despite the fact that I have no idea where the LORD wants me to be after I graduate, or what He wants me to do, or how He wants me to do it....I know that He will take care of it. And I don't need to know yet.

Now for some verses that have been sticking out to me lately:

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." --John 1:5.
(Well, that one always sticks out to me.)

"I will bless the LORD who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me. I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me." --Psalm 16:8.

"'Friends, I realize that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance. But God was fulfulling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah--that He must suffer these things." --Acts 3:17-18.

"When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right." --Romans 6:20.

"For the LORD of Heaven's Armies has not abandoned Israel and Judah. He is still their God, even though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel." --Jeremiah 51:5.