It seems to me that since turning twenty just over a month ago, everything has changed. Okay, not actually, but I have been reflecting on the fact that I'm at a fairly pivotal point in my life right now. A number of my friends have graduated and have real adult jobs now, I'll be graduating myself in just over a year, friends of mine are getting engaged or getting into fairly serious dating relationships. I'll be twenty-one when I graduate next April, and it's at that point that after being in school for seventeen of those twenty-one years of my life, I'll be done with school and I'll be expected to be a real-life adult. That's scary. See what I mean? I'm at a pivotal and important point in my young adult life. How fun.
However, as I've been reflecting on how my life has been recently, I've realized that I'm content with where I'm at. No matter how pivotal or scary my life seems right now, I have Christ, and isn't that all that I really need? Yes. But something that has been on my mind since last week when I realized how truly content I am with life right now is, how long can this contentedness last? Is being content the same thing as being comfortable? We all know that God doesn't call us to be comfortable.
I'm still processing those questions and sorting out exactly what I think, but I figured I'd share my thought process so far. Obviously I'm human and so I still have doubts sometimes, so when I get into the mindset of 'What if I'm alone forever? I want to get married, but what if I never do?', I'm reminded of the words of Psalm 37:4
I've been finding a lot of joy in reading through the Bible, spending time in prayer, and really seeking after God. I love the change that I'm seeing in my life, and as I said in my last post, the more joyful I'm feeling and the more changes I'm seeing in my life and in my way of thinking, the stronger my desire is to seek after God.
I've been wanting to climb to the top of a mountain (or a really tall hill, seeing as I live in Canada) and proclaim how amazing God is and how much of a change I've been seeing in my life since truly seeking after Him with my whole heart.
Jesus has changed my whole life, and I just wish that everyone had a positive view of Him and was willing to let their lives be completely transformed.
However, as I've been reflecting on how my life has been recently, I've realized that I'm content with where I'm at. No matter how pivotal or scary my life seems right now, I have Christ, and isn't that all that I really need? Yes. But something that has been on my mind since last week when I realized how truly content I am with life right now is, how long can this contentedness last? Is being content the same thing as being comfortable? We all know that God doesn't call us to be comfortable.
I'm still processing those questions and sorting out exactly what I think, but I figured I'd share my thought process so far. Obviously I'm human and so I still have doubts sometimes, so when I get into the mindset of 'What if I'm alone forever? I want to get married, but what if I never do?', I'm reminded of the words of Psalm 37:4
"Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart."Lately I've been at peace because I know that God has a purpose for my life and that no hardship in this world can thwart that or keep Him from fulfilling that purpose for me. And my thinking is that if my focus is in the right place - the Lord - then perhaps I really can be content no matter what situation I find myself in.
I've been finding a lot of joy in reading through the Bible, spending time in prayer, and really seeking after God. I love the change that I'm seeing in my life, and as I said in my last post, the more joyful I'm feeling and the more changes I'm seeing in my life and in my way of thinking, the stronger my desire is to seek after God.
I've been wanting to climb to the top of a mountain (or a really tall hill, seeing as I live in Canada) and proclaim how amazing God is and how much of a change I've been seeing in my life since truly seeking after Him with my whole heart.
Jesus has changed my whole life, and I just wish that everyone had a positive view of Him and was willing to let their lives be completely transformed.
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