the Lord is faithful.

So, I'm currently sitting at Panera Bread in Denton, my future home....yes, you heard me right, I'm moving to Denton. The job opportunity/internship i was pursuing has, by the grace of the Lord, worked out, and I'm beyond excited! This whole process of me getting this internship has been completely from the Lord, and I'm so thankful for it! The Lord is so funny sometimes. It's so interesting and awesome and just funny to look back and see all of the doors that the Lord closed and opened to get me to this point. I've just realized lately through the lives of others and in my own life as well, how the Lord leads us to Him. We always ask for God to show us how things are going to work out, show us what's supposed to happen; but God, it seems to me just wants us to follow him step by step. That seems to ensure that we become closer to Him if we want to keep following Him. We have to run harder after him, because if he just showed us what the outcome would be, i don't think the middle would be as important to us, and I'm not sure we would seek after him in the way we should, the way He wants. I think if He showed me the endings, i would just assume everything i did would automatically lead to that and wouldn't take as much care. Just like an addict could maybe see himself overcoming his addiction, he would never be able to do that without really working at each step to to that recovery. Each step, it seems has to be completed whole-heartedly before the outcome can occur.

I was reading Isaiah 51 this morning before leaving for my talk with my soon to be boss...(i was really nervous...) and, oh i just love the book of Isaiah---verse 9 says "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake, as in the days of old, the generation of long ago."---which is one thing i needed to hear---because i literally did need to wake up and the Lord gave me strength :). Then later in the chapter the Lord just reminds Zion of his power and sovreignty by saying:
"I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-----(so cool!) the Lord of hosts is his name And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth and saying to Zion,'You are my people'."
This was such encouragement to me because I'd just been praying that the Holy Spirit would give me the words to say. God is so faithful and merciful and beautiful!