Submitting

I had big plans of writing a great post on how I choose a college, and how I eventually choose Cedarville.
While I could go into the long story, and might at some point later, the main thing I learned  through that experience was it that God might not show me exactly where he wants me to go to college, but he does require that I am committed to serving Him, following Him, and submitting to his will no matter where I am.

While the entire experience of choosing a college took an emotional toll on me, God's sovereignty and in his own timing led me to a college that satisfied my deep intellectual need to understand God from an academic, intellectual perspective. But before he could do that, he needed to know that I would be willing to trust that God has my best interest in mind and that I would be 100% committed to serving him no matter where I was. At that point, my job was to simply do the research, apply and pray for wisdom in choosing which college...but in all trusting that wherever I ended up would be exactly where he wants me to be.

As I enter this new season of life, finishing up my last year of college and making definitive plans for life after college it is painfully similar to my experience of choosing a college...but on steroids. But three years later I am more mature than my high school self, have deepened my relationship with Christ and committed to trusting the doors that God closes and the doors that God opens. He has prepared me for today and the decisions I will make in the next year. And through it all the Lord is refining me and teaching me to Reflect Him more clearly.

The Lord will provide the strength, he only asks that I trust Him. And I am committed to that. Here before the entire world (the small world that actually reads this) I am committed to trusting God and relying completely on his strength, come what may, His will be done.

 Words from my Greatest Example of Submission to the Lord's Will:
Luke 23:26 "Father into your hands I commit my spirit!" - Jesus
Luke 22:42. "Not my will, but yours, be done" - Jesus