God, Me and the Future ...

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