Winning

I won a prize!!!! Actually two prizes. I won two community service awards at the end of this school year. I was incredibly excited when I won them. One was at a school-wide ceremony, and the other was from the Black Law Students Assocation. I was completely humbled by them both because in each instance I thought of other people that could have won this same award. Other people who work just as hard, if not harder, to make public service happen, to make public interest a real interest in the lives of others. And God chose me. It's as if he moved everybody aside and personally hand picked me, which God does all the time, I mean, think of David. But to be the recipient of that treatment was just pretty much amazing :)

After reflecting on my awards, I concluded, that God is really just so good. I happily accepted each award knowing that God picked me, and that what God wills no one can take away. If anything the awards were testaments of God's love for me, and his approval of where I am in my life. Prior to winning them, I had just complained to my mom about how I just was not sure what I was going to do, and how I was really trying to figure out God's plan for my life. And then BAM!! I get some awards. If that's not a sign of God's approval and encouragement, I don't know what is. I've been running so as to win the prize (1 Corinthians 9: 24-25), and God gave me one; actually two!

This, of course, encourages me to keep running. To keep living for God, and to keep praying and doing his will. He knows what's best for me, and I need to trust Him wholeheartedly with my life, because He knows the plans that He has for me (Jeremiah 29:11), and I need to just trust that. And with that, I'm off to train. Peace!

1 Corinthians 9:24-25; Jeremiah 29:11; 1 Peter 5:10