Sunday, December 4, 2011

Joyfully Surprised 7/16/11

I don't deserve to be this happy.
Especially not for such an extended period of time.
I honestly haven't had a negative mood (that lasted more than a few hours) in months!
Can you believe it? I know; it's hard for me too.

It's all because of God. But He's making me happy in the strangest ways.
Like... sending me to a foreign country.
Like... giving me a job.
Like giving me (of all things!) a boyfriend.

It seems too good to be true.
Why would God reward me with such tangible, wonderful things?
God always makes me happy... but never in this way.
I've never felt so obviously and overwhelmingly blessed.

Here's the deal, folks.
I don't believe in coincidences.
I believe in God's plans.
And His plans are perfect.

I met someone who had every trait or aspiration that I want my future husband to have....
Not necessary things, but things that I would like to find in a guy.
Not only that, but we see eye to eye on necessary issues... relationships; marriage; future.

I met this guy at a job that I wasn't supposed to have.
My application was late; they had already filled the positions.
Somehow, they ended up needing someone else.
Somehow, that someone else was me.

Things like that don't happen "just because".
God has a plan for me.
Why He would plan to give me everything I want; I don't know.

However, His plan isn't anything I expected.
I didn't expect my boyfriend to be who he is.
I didn't expect to get this job.
I didn't expect to be able to travel to Haiti on a mission trip.

Doesn't that make it so much more amazing,
to be caught by surprise in God's plan?
I love it.

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has planned for those who love Him." -1 Corinthians 2:9

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