It was difficult for me to decide how to begin this
blog. I wanted a title that would
inspire me throughout the year and keep me centered on my mission every time I
sit down to write. So I did what I
always do when I need guidance, I opened up my Bible. On the morning of January 13, the day of my
departure, I closed my eyes and randomly opened to Isaiah 55. These are the verses from which I have taken
my title:
““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways
my ways,” says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are my ways
higher than your ways, And my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and do
not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud.
That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish what I please,
and shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led back in peace; the
mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the
trees shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree and
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
These verses assure me that just as God sends the rain and
snow to earth to accomplish their purposes, He has also sent me for a specific
purpose. My greatest prayer is that I
will live a life that accomplishes “the thing for which I was sent”. My past has taught me that what is returned
to me won’t be what I expected or desired, but I can be sure that it will be
exactly what I need, because it is what God intended for me and with this
knowledge, I know that in the end, I shall “be led back in peace”.
