The Reason for Everything

Up till yesterday, I was pretty pumped and optimistic about getting a second undergraduate degree from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

Yesterday, I found out that Point Park University could not be an option for me anymore :(

Basically, I was told a month ago that it is very possible for me to get a lot of scholarship from that University. However, yesterday, I was told that that information is incorrect, and that transfer students (at this point of time anyway) could only get about $5000 a year.

So, after finding that out, I basically spent the rest of the day stressing out about after-graduation options (silly of me, I know).

Thankfully, right before I went to bed, God gave me a (good) tight slap in the face :P

He said to me in Romans 11:36, “Everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by his power, and everything is for his glory.”

Enough said, really :)

“Don’t worry about a thing, cos’ every little thing [is] gonna be alright” (Bob Marley).

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  1. allany
    Jan 08, 2010 @ 20:53:41

    Hope this devotion from “Daily with my King” by W.Glyn Evans will help you further.

    I will make You the basis of my trust, Lord. I will accept your demolition of my security, even though it is painful. When I was a young Christian, I thought everything was God-and.

    It was God – and blessings; God – and power; God – and fruitfulness. Now I see that everything is just God – and nothing.

    Now I fully understand why God tested Abraham’s faith by telling him to sacrifice Isaac. God gives, but He also takes away. He must take away. God will not have me trusting anything other than Himself, not even a good, lovely thing like Isaac. God gives me vibrant health, then He takes it away and leaves me weak and clinging. Why? To show me where my ultimate trust should be. No sooner do I find something in which I can boast than God takes away the object of my boasting. Not bad things, but good things! Sermons, books, articles tell me constantly that the Christian life is the greatest, the most exciting, the most rewarding life available. But they miss the point! They tell me God adds so much to me. As a result, my Christian life can become a shamble through false expectancy. What really happens is that God takes away so much. He continually removes from my life everything that would make me earthbound, self dependant, or experience centered.
    Why were so many of the Corinthian Christians “weak…sickly…and [dead]” (1 Corr 11:30)? Because a thing had come between them and God. God will tolerate no “thing” between Himself and me – even so dear a thing as my “Isaac”. But He will take nothing away without adding the larger dimension of Himself to take its place. Once I have given my dearest to Him, I will hear Him say, “Now I will REALLY bless you” (see Gen 22:17).

    Isaiah 40:31
    “Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary”.

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  2. オテモニャン
    Feb 04, 2010 @ 19:21:27

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