Back on the Battle Field

Ever feel like you're being set up to fail?
Like nothing you do will ever go the way you think it should?

Well, welcome to my past few weeks.

*I experienced my first time being "separated" from a job that I had put my all into for an entire year. (My longest job)
*Then my computer started acting up during some online assignments at the time they were due, go figure.
*Then my bank account started depleting.
*If the piles and piles of school work and stress didn't seem bad enough.... 
I came down with one of the worse sinus infections I had ever gotten in my life.

I put on a smile, got up every morning and dressed up like nothing was going terribly wrong. I walked around like my world wasn't falling in around me and I couldn't catch the pieces. I felt like I was running around with a butterfly net trying to catch those pieces of my life.

Friday my parents finally came down and took me home for the weekend so I could recover from my illness. I was able to lay in bed all day Saturday and Sunday and just pray. I asked silly questions like 

"Why, God?"

and

"What did I ever do wrong?"

This morning when I woke up and turned my radio on I got my answer...

"Praise God to whom all blessing flow. Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost." -Doxology by David Crowder Band

"My heart burns for You." -Obsession by David Crowder Band

These two songs really made me realize that all these things happening to me aren't tragedies or ends to somethings. They are merely beginnings to something greater! God has a plan for my life and He is leading me slowly there by strengthening me with these bumps in the road. 

"¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." 1 Corinthians 10:13

If God didn't think I could handle these trials then He wouldn't have given them to me. I believe this weekend of rest was the beginning of my "escape". Every solider needs a time of rest and recovery after being beaten down time and time again. Now I am back on the battle field ready to fight with the angels of the Lord on my shoulders. I will find a new job and I will conquer this trying semester.

Prayers are welcomed and thanked. Every college student needs them. I am not the only one struggling in this world. I am just one of the few blogging about the struggles of college and life. But my strength comes from the Lord and in Him I find rest and the power to go on!

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

The Lord doesn't break His promises. So go to Him when you are burdened and He promises to give you rest. He gave me rest when I needed it and now I am ready for the fight.