Praise the Lord :D

Okay, so I just feel like blogging so that'll encourage you to.

So today I really felt that God's working in our lives. I have this friend who's still waiting for her uni acceptances. It's been kinda nerve wrecking for her (and me) because the deadline to accept an offer is in 2 weeks-ish, and if you dont have any offeres.. you're kinda screwed. So for a while i've been praying for her because i know she can do it. But the thing is.. she applied to really hardcore programs. Her marks aren't bad, just not good enough for such hard core stuffs. So today at lunch, she tells me she got an alternate offer! Hey, it's still good! She was telling me how she was getting a bit desperate, y'know. And she asked God to hurry and give her SOMETHING. And she even went to a point to negotiating with God, in a way. "God, if you do this, I'll..." And I'm sure many of us have done the same thing. But she told me how she realizes that's not the way to get things from God, but she's just very relieved that God's opened a door for her. It wasn't her first (nor second, i think), but no matter what, God's gonna give us the best that he thinks. This reminds me of something that we talked bout in t4c last week. This guy was telling us how God doesn't work the way people work, etc. and how our attitude should be "God, I'll follow You EVEN IF ... " instead of "If You gimme this, THEN I'll..." I thought that was a really great reminder of how important our faith is, and how we definately need to know God before we can follow Him. :)

So the verse i was talking about last week ( i think?) is found in proverbs. I read it a few days ago in devo:
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." Proverbs 16:9

I hope your spiritual journey's going well. It'd be great if you blogged about it :P

-a.