Soooo when Rachel
asked me to do a blog, I thought eeeeekk scary times! But I realised that
people are probably going through the same things that I have gone through, so
I would really like to be able to encourage people that these situations are
not permanent! They do end, and with the power of God we can get through tough
times and doubts etc.
For me the thing
I have always struggled with since I've been a christian is what is God's plan
for me? Where do I fit into his world? Why hasn't he shouted in a booming
voice, “NAOMI I WANT YOU TO BE MIDWIFE AND YOU SHALL WORK AT THE DGH”?? I never
felt a really calling or belief that God had any role for me, any specific job,
any specific thing He wanted me to do. I wasn't one of those people who has
known since they were 5 that they wanted to be a firefighter or a teacher or an
engineer or a train driver or something. Actually I used to want to be a vet
until I realised I didn't really like dogs, so that plan went straight down the
drain...
One verse that
has really stuck with me the last few years is Jeremiah 29 v 11, [God was
speaking through Jeremiah to his people who had been exiled from Jerusalem] and
it says...
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares
the Lord, they are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a
hope”.
Another is Psalm
139 v13...
“You created
every part of me. You put me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made.”
These verses
really spoke to me when I was doubting God, in that I knew that God knew me, I
knew that God has always had a plan for me and that he will show me his plan
when the time is right!
So yeah, just a
quick encouraging word that God HAS got a plan for you and that he always had!
I've had many doubts over the last few years, especially end of year 11, going
up to college and not having a clue what on earth I wanted to do with my life.
Persisting with church and going to True, has really helped me see that it's
not what I want to do, it's want GOD wants to do!
Yeah, so from
finishing GCSEs and not having a clue, I'm now hopefully going to university in September, I know where I want to go after that, I have been blessed by God
with an absolutely amazeballs group of christian buddies and have a hope and
future with the holy spirit guiding me through it all!
Make GOD the
centre of your life and the rest will happen :)
xxx
