No Such Thing as Wrong Turns

Wow – it has been such a whirlwind of a semester, and now it is the final week of classes.  Exams are beginning, things are winding down, and the to-do lists are becoming longer and longer.  The summer is so close and I seriously cannot wait…but at the same time I am not ready for this year to be over.  Don’t get me wrong, I am ready for classes to end, but I am not so sure that I am prepared for my sophomore year to be drawing to a close. 

I feel like the further along you get into your college career, the more you are asked your plans for the future, this summer, next year, after graduation, and the list continues.  There is this perpetual pressure to make plans and decisions about the future and it can be so overwhelming.  I get so scared when I am planning my future because I feel like I am inevitably going to mess something up.  What if I make selfish decisions because I cannot see the bigger picture of life and mess up God’s plan for me?  I find myself haunted by that question, but then I find peace when I remember that there is no such thing as messing up God’s will for my life.  Sure, I will stumble and fall and make mistakes on my journey, but God redeems them and works them out to benefit me and be used for His glory.  That is one of the beauties of grace – God takes our mistakes, messes, and broken efforts and He transforms them by His great love to help shape our hearts. 

This semester has been a particularly difficult and stressful season in my life, but at no point has God ever left my side or forsaken me.  Rather, in my lowest moments and the points when I have felt the most needy and messy, He has drawn me in closer to Him and held me in His strong arms.  He covers my weaknesses with His strength and carries me through each of my days.  Praise the Lord for His grace that is constant and passionate even in the reality of my inconsistency.  Praise the Lord that there are no wrong turns in life, only opportunities for God to transform us, draw us closer to Him, and redeem us by His love.