When things just dont go to plan.

So I don't really know where I'm going to go to school next semester, I don't know who will eventually ordain me, and I don't know very much Hebrew...

Pretty much every plan I thought I had to get from here to the Navy is COMPLETELY up in the air. That's unsettling. Or is it? Who am I to plan something and expect those results over God. I'm in a fairly precocious place of knowing that God's way and plan are infinitely more glorifying and beneficial than my own plans, but I'm still uncomfortable with not knowing how exactly God will have me fulfill my call.

Its like watching a movie when you still don't really know if the main character will hit the home run, or get caught, or get killed by the murderer, and yet you still know that the story has to end well or a bunch of movie producers would have never backed it.

In this case its my life though, which adds to the apprehension.

Packer has written some truth that has helped me cling to biblical truths over my own need for fulfillment and comfort: "...the same wisdom that ordered the paths which God's saints trod in Bible times orders the Christian's life today. We should not, therefore, be too taken aback when unexpected and upsetting and discouraging things happen to us now. What do they mean? Simply that God in his wisdom means to make something of us which we have not attained yet, and he is dealing with us accordingly."

If you're feeling anything like I am in your life know this... God's reality is way more real than what we think we know. Read more Old Testament, God has dealt with the saints with a wisdom that is beyond our understanding since the beginning of time. Abraham, Jacob, Job all had to deal with things that they did not understand at the time, but are the foundation of the faith because of what God wanted from them.

God has a plan, trust that above all.

"God comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God" (2Corinthians 1:4).