In last week's bible study our teacher encouraged us to "ask God for visual reminders of His faithfulness." She followed this statement with the truth that God can take even our blunders and turn them into blessings. Setting up my table at the Lubbock Area College Fair last night, I stepped back and looked at my table. The spot assigned to me was no coincidence.
7 years ago just one section down from where I stood last night, was my first day in Lubbock as an official Texas Tech student. Sitting in the United Spirit Arena, all at once I knew more than I've ever known anything in my life: I was not where I should be. It took me 2 whole years from that moment in the arena to obey God's holy nudge over my life and finally move to Baylor. You see, my choice to attend Tech in the first place came from a spirit of rebellion and a lack of faith. It was a blunder on my part. But let me tell you that by the grace of God alone, sweet blessings came from this said blunder. The Lord allowed me divine friendships at Tech and again as I stepped out in faithful obedience toward Baylor.
I didn't earn these friendships or deserve them. I don't even now. But the Lord didn't give them to me because I did a good job or finally had the "right" heart about things. He provided them for me because "the Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with His hand," (Psalm 37:23-24).
So as I have prayed the Lord has shown me pillars of His faithfulness in my life. And last night it all came full-circle for me again. I never would have imagined 7 years ago that what I thought of as a mistake the Lord would use as a period of redemption and restoration; that He would turn my blunder into a blessing. And I wanted to share this visual with you; because what looks like just another table at just another college fair on just any other day, is actually His way of looking at me and saying, "I am faithful." I pray that He would reveal His faithfulness in the most unlikely ways to you as well. And may you be reminded of how He has turned your blunders into blessings. He is a good Father and ever faithful.
Wreck 'em, Tech! & Sic 'em, Bears!
