Hindsight is 20/20.

From June 7th, 2012

Can I just brag on God for a minute? I don’t take enough time to talk about how amazing he is.

I’m so overwhelmed by him lately. It’s incredible to me how he knows me better than I know myself. He knows exactly what it takes to guide me and correct me until I’m on the path he has prepared for me.

This past year has been a really difficult season for me, and in the midst of it, I had no idea why things were happening the way they were and why I felt the way I did. I never thought of it as God’s discipline…until tonight.

The distress and unrest that I experienced during that time just seemed like an inconvenient but inevitable feeling that I would have to learn to live with. Until I finally woke up and realized that God was calling me to make a change.

I won’t go into details right now, but my life will be changing quite a bit very soon. Good changes, but hard ones too. The thing that amazes me so much though is looking back at the uncertain, confusing times and realizing God ordained that time of “discipline” so that I would reach a place of complete desperation, which would lead to obedience. And that obedience will lead to complete joy and fulfillment.

Hindsight is 20/20 I guess. But with God, even when we’re in the middle of suffering or can’t seem to catch a break, we can trust that there is a purpose for the trial. We can trust that God really does work all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

I’m just so thankful for that.