I'm tired, exhausted but tommorow will be a new day. Busy, busy busy. University is starting to get well underway. Amongst all of this busyness, had a fantastic time with fellow brothers and sisters on campus at UBC-O. Coming out of that gathering, I honestly fell down on my knees and thanked God for the people he has brought me into my life.
I feel tired, yet I'm blessed to have friends that challenge me, encourage me and carry me when my eyes are half open. For the first time, in a long time I'm beggining to love university, my studies after three years. Though there have been many bumps, bouts of anxiety, depression and hardship. Why now have I begun to enjoy school in so far incedent free semeester?
Three words: God's gracious provision.
Lam 3:19-23; Jeremiah begins with this in the midst of a lament, "I remember my affliction and my wandering." So often I think of those trials and remeber how faithful God was towards me. Just about everytime I reached my breaking point during trying times. Charles Sprugeon once remarked in a sermon:
"Yet, trials can prove a wonderful work of God in us. I have often looked back to times of trial with a kind of longing, not to have them return, but to feel the strength of God as I have felt it then, to feel the power of faith, as I have felt it then, to hang upon God's powerful arm as I hung upon it then, and to see God at work as I saw him then."
So I say with Jeremiah, "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope... ," and I find myself left with an ending to proclaim."Great is Your Faithfulness." Oh God, your mercies are new every morning, they are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
-Lloyd
