All the time

I'd just like to share about how good God is. This is my first week of embarking on a tough stage in my life. Between work, school, and internship, I'll be working 70 hours/week. Learning new things and working at places that are really tough emotionally (hospice and homeless young adults) with only every other Saturday off is daunting. However, I feel like that's what God is asking me to do for this moment and I will be obedient in walking through it with Him. Last night at church I was praying through feeling exhausted and asking God to show me how to be joyful when I'm stretched to the limits like this. I was reminded to be thankful and focus on Him.

So today, I start work at 7am and go straight to school and don't get out until 10pm. It's a long day and I was dragging myself out of bed to do it. Then this morning I got great news at work. And then I walked out of the office to run to the mini-mart next door and lo and behold my husband was walking up to me with a soda treat in hand!

These small things just made me feel so blessed and assured of the fact that God will get me through this. By my strength, I just can't. There's no way. But He will see me through.

And on a slightly related note... I feel like I keep hearing about people's stories of God's provision. "My car was broken and then God provided the money to fix it! Isn't God good?" I think these stories are great. But I sometimes feel like saying to these people - even if God doesn't fix your situation, He's still good. It can feel like the implication is that God proves His existence and goodness by changing the bad situation or giving us a way out. But I've learned that even if the rent doesn't miraculously get paid. Even if the cancer takes over. Even if I sleep in a park. Even if He doesn't provide a way out of working 70 hours/week. He is still good because through it all, He will never leave us. Never forsake us. THAT is His promise. Not that bad stuff won't happen, but that He will be with us through all of it. He is not God because we are blessed, we are blessed because He is God.