These first two weeks of my last year of college have flown by. Well, really these past few years have as well.
But that comes as no surprise. Despite how many times I've said, "I cannot believe its already {fill in the blank}."
You do it too! We 20 somethings (any age really) feel like we're growing up to fast, like real life is trying to trip us up while we're green and unprepared. I have TONS of friends that say they would prefer to stay in college forever, rather than face the responsibility that awaits us--with a career and a family and everything else our generation is expected to take on in the near future.
But growing up is reality. Change is expected. And can I tell you a secret?
I LOVE it. I love that nothing in life is constant. I love that it moves quickly. Call me crazy but change is fascinating! Change keeps me on my toes, forces me to be flexible and lets me be easy-going.
More importantly--change, growing up--challenges me to have faith. My understanding of time gives me the perspective I need to live my days intentionally. To maximize relationships and love the best I can. With each birthday and a growing list of responsibilities, I am reminded that I am moving towards something.
I am not static, I am not stagnant. I am Kellie, Daughter of the Most High God, and I am moving towards becoming like Jesus. With that perspective, change doesn't scare me. Time passing too quickly doesn't scare me.
God has my life laid out for me already. So the time he gives me is a gift. And the changes he challenges me with are for my own good, especially in achieving my goal.
Psalm 139:16-17 says, "You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!"
I pray for all of you reading this who know Jesus that you would take heart in these verses! Not only did God lay out your days, but He thinks about you all the time! We cannot even imagine a number that would encompass all the things our doting Father has to say about us, His beloved children. I pray an increase of faith in your life that would allow you to trust God in how he fills your days and what he fills them with.
And for those of you who don't know Jesus yet... I pray that you would come to realize that there is a God that exists and He, the Creator of all things, is pulling for you. He is on your side and He would LOVE for you to know His Son, so that you could be brought into this precious family of believers. I pray that stress and struggle that comes with time and change would no longer burden you, because you would know who gave you that time in the first place!
Embrace change, delight in the time you are given, and have faith in God to bring you into a life you could have never even dreamed for yourself!
Ephesians 1: 3-6
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Love,
K.
