I have experienced incredible blessings over the past five weeks because God has done something very simple for me. He has kept His promises! The Bible is full of promises. From salvation to provision to all sorts of other "-ion" words, He makes promises to us and dares us to hold Him to them. When we choose to have faith, which my mom insists must include a step of obedience, we allow ourselves to experience God's faithfulness.
I have been forced into greater dependence on God. This season of life is unlike anything I've experienced before, in good ways! God has given me His promises, new every day and every week, and Has shown me how creative He can be in keeping them. Here are just a few that I have really clung to over the past month:
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness." 2 Peter 1:3
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9
In Mary's encounter with the angel Gabriel: Gabriel: "...nothing is impossible with God." Mary: "I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said." Luke 1:37-38
God has literally given me everything I need, been powerful in my weakness, and encouraged me to trust Him to accomplish this task through me. If my faith was in myself I don't know how confident I would feel, because I know how weak and fallible and, honestly, what a mess I am on my own. However, I have chosen to believe that God has not brought me here to fail, that He will empower me to succeed, and to do this thing I would never be able to do in my own strength.
PLUS, He is giving me consistent reminders that He is taking care of every detail of my needs. I am an incredibly social person and my regular interaction with others is limited now. But God is providing encouraging and uplifting interaction in places and moments I never expect. From my Friday night coffee shop corner to a small women's Bible study with a few other law students to my delightful friends finding ways to remind me I'm not alone. My mom even comes over to help me clean my house when I am too overwhelmed to take care of it by myself!
There are so many other ways God has kept His promises... financial provision, understanding my classes, not getting sick... the list is unending. He is teaching me that He is attentive, faithful, creative, timely, and specific in His responses to my needs.
I feel like I am just starting to believe what we sing on Sundays... "You are more than enough for me" ... "You're all I want, You're all I've ever needed" In spite of how hard as this season is, or maybe because of it, God is truly allowing me to fall even more in love with Him. What an amazing and unexpected lesson of my first semester of law school!
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