junior day #17

I guess it's kinda been awhile.

This semester feels like it's going to be amazing, but in all honesty, I have no idea. But I'm trusting, I'm trusting, that it's all going to be okay. How much am I giving up to Him? All of it. I need to submit all of it.

We began a series today at church on "Scary Hope", a study on the book of Micah. Chapter 1 talks about the judgement against Samaria and Judah, how God is coming down from his dwelling place to deal with the disobedience and sins of his people. But what was emphasized in the message, was not God's wrathful judgement, but how God was not leaving his throne to destroy the people of Samaria and Judah, but its idols. But because the people cling so closely to their idols, they will be destroyed in the process. Yet it goes to show how jealous God is and how much he seeks to have us fully.

It's a big semester;
Recruiting for summer internships,
Notification on study abroad,
Honors I-CORE projects and teams,
Building up EPIC,
Declaring majors...

and in the worst case scenarios of everything, I can't say I won't be miserable. It's so easy to be flustered, to be worried, to be scared. About my classes, my job, my career, my life. Isn't that weird? Why is it so easy? We seek all this control over things we have so little control over and then push God away thinking he's "too much of a burden", all the while he asks us to give him our burdens and hope in a promise that he's guaranteed. Why are we holding back?
I know that there is a greater purpose to everything I do, a greater hope to this life I'm living, and a reassurance that it's all for the greatness of His kingdom. I need to submit everything.
Here's to declaring God's glory. Here's to junior year. I wish us all the best of luck.

09.06.2015