February 17, 2006

I found today, something that I feel is a continuation of something that God has planned for me to be a part of.

I got home from my class today, and was getting out of the car, when my sister practically bolted out of the front door, and told me I had a phone call. That alone is weird, having a phone call on the house phone. So I hurried in and picked up the phone from where it was sitting, off the hook on the desk next to the phone.

I said my hello, and the voice on the other end said they were looking for someone that just happened to fit my exact name. I told them they had found me, and the voice told me they were calling to tell me they were from the admissions office of the college I had sent a transfer application to.

I held my breath and waited to be informed of what I had forgotten to include on the application I had mailed in three days earlier.

After a short eternity of waiting, the voice told me something I wasn't prepared for, exactly. They told me they wanted to congratulate me on my acceptance into the school for next semester.

Something about the speed in which this call came told me that this is exactly where God wants me to be. All of this has happened at such a lightning pace, and I know, only God is in control of the lightning.

I have also gotten some weird looks in reference to how quickly I made the money from a tax refund disappear. My feelings are as follows:

I don't need this money. To set aside money for emergencies, or to stockpile alot of it, is to distrust my life and where God wants things to go. I can't prevent what is supposed to happen, and the money I have plays little part of the treasures I will have in Heaven. I don't need a ton of money to be happy, and I would much rather invest the money I DO have in my passions than to have a credit statement to look at, telling me how much money I have in the bank, if only I were to spend it.

How much faith and security to we place in our stockholdings and our bank accounts? How often have we looked at our balance and said "well, at least if anything bad happens, I've got this to cover it"? What if we substituted what we were saying about our bank accounts and our money, and put that exact statment to apply with our Lord? Doesn't He exceed the power that any money could not even begin to cover?