Another hectic week has come and gone, and I’ll be honest: this week is much better than my first. Sleep schedules are set (I wake up earlier than my alarm ⅘ times), study schedules are a little clearer, and my first two quizzes are happening soon! I learned how to do autorefraction basically when you go to the eye doctor and they have you look into a little machine, stare at a hot air balloon, and get a rough estimate of your visual acuity to work around. I also learned how to do lensometry or getting the reading on a pair of glasses since a patient usually won’t know their Rx. I also got more and more confused in my class as conversation bounced from astronauts to honeybuns and I still haven’t understood a single slide (yet).
I love having this blog as a mental log of my journey, and the everlasting faithfulness of our God in my life. When I left college/college ministry life (SOON Movement), I wasn’t sure where God would take me. I didn’t know anything, and that gave me anxiety because I had no control of my future.
Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote this on the train in the morning I was heading to church:
It wasn’t a crazy prayer. It was a genuine, honest prayer that came from vulnerability. I was telling God how uncertain life for me was and how the only certainty that I knew was Jesus: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. So, in a whirlwind of events, I am now two weeks into school, still at Exilic Church, and my life has changed in so many ways for the best. That is who our God is, our God is the God we can trust and hope in, and no amount of knowing the future or perceived control you have can compare to knowing that so intimately, desperately, and personally in your soul.
To know that God walks with you and leads you to sleep beside still waters. To know that for Jesus, who conquered sin and grave, there is nothing impossible for you. To know that you are a child of God now, favored, blessed, loved, chosen, anointed, seen, known, and forgiven. How great is our God? How good is it to know that He is present through every moment of every day of your life? That is the identity that keeps me rooted through stormy seasons and flourishes under the sun (or the Son hehe).
God is the same for you if you are His child, and if you aren’t (yet) then He greatly longs to be. The cross stands as evidence of that desire to give us the best of the best. God, I want to know more and more of You through the rest of my life.
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