Faithful Father.

So this post is related to my newest post on my other blog, but I want to go in to the spiritual side of my new job. So I've been talking to my mom a lot about trusting the Lord with His plan for my life (as a recent college graduate, this is a lesson I'm just going to have to learn). I've been pretty actively job hunting since I've been home from school which has been almost a month and I started to get really doubtful. Whenever my mom and I would talk about it, she would always say, "Lauren, God sees the big picture, from beginning to end. You'll find the job He wants for you when He wants you to find it. We're just a small thread woven into the big fabric of time to eventually create this beautiful picture." Wow. How true is that?

²⁸And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' Matthew 6:28-31

²⁵And they went and woke him, saying, "Save us, Lord; we are perishing." ²⁶And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. Matthew 8: 25-26

³⁰But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." ³¹Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" Matthew 14:30-31

⁷And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." ⁸But Jesus, aware of this, said, "O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? ⁹ Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? Matthew 16:7-9

These are 4 instances where Jesus said to his disciples, "O you of little faith". How many times has the Lord had to say to you, "O you of little faith"? I know He's said it to me many times. I think sometimes we think we're the star of the show that this world revolves around us. Could we be any further from the truth? My life, your life, everyday, everything in existence is all for the glory of God! I'm here to bring God glory in all that I do. So, yes it may have taken me a month to find a job but I know that God has put me with this family for a reason. Maybe they need to see the love of the Lord, or maybe they'll impact me in a way that only they could. I don't know, but this is where God wants me in the big picture. I'm so thankful that my God isn't about the temporary. He's always about the eternal! Praise the Lord that I don't understand His ways or His timing, because then, I would be God and He would receive no glory. Anyways, I don't know if this made sense or not, but I just love that I get to see God's hand move in my life everyday. Thank you Jesus for your faithfulness to your children.

lauren.