Daily Devotional: 5/9/2018

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“Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.” Job 8:7.

Yesterday was the official end to my junior year at college. Mind you I was finished for two weeks, but had to stick around because of baseball and to drive people to the airport. This school was full of its ups and downs, first semester more ups and the second semester more downs. But it is all apart it. With every up and every down I was able to grow not only as a man, but as a man of God. God was with me guiding me every step of the way, especially when I did not feel him at all. That is when I knew he was working that much harder. This semester was also a very transitional semester, I was kept on my heels the entire time. Every up that I had from the first semester turned into a down real quick as soon as the second semester started. Went from personal problems, to baseball problems, to school problems. If something could go wrong, in a sense it. The first semester I felt like I was on top of the world, but I was brought to a halting crash at the start of second when I was welcomed back to reality. With every bad there is a good to counteract it. The best thing that happened to me this semester was this blog. It has helped me focus on God and others. It has given me a voice that I never knew I had. Another thing that was big in this semester was the fact that I am not that happy with the major I have. I now have no idea what I want to do after college. All the plans I had, do not excite me anymore. I was a criminal justice major, but my art is my main passion. So I have a whole lot of praying that I have to do, and a whole lot of trust to follow it. With this chapter ending I am excited to see what the next brief chapter of Summer 2k18 brings, and then ready to start my senior year. I have so much planned for this summer. I have summer baseball, working out, art projects, this blog and its growth, got work, MAYBE ANOTHER WEDDING, church events, and trips that I want to do. Baseball, this blog, art projects, work, and working out is going to take up most of my summer. I was talking to a couple of brothers in Christ, and this summer could be huge and a prosperous one if we take advantage of it. Usually we are all separate, but we will all be close together this summer, without the hassle of school. A brother that lives in Puerto Rico and another that lives in Florida will be close by the school (45 minutes from me - South), and another brother from California is going to be 40 minutes North of me by my cousin. And then we have two brothers (one from Pennsylvania and New Mexico) playing on the same summer ball team in Iowa. There is three people that we could easily study with, one being my bestfriend from back home (showed previous interest), another from school (who is already studying), and a teammate of ours is playing with the brother from California and he is someone I have wanted to reach out for the longest time but its hard with the people he hangs out with at school. Also, with the Puerto Rican brother so close, we can easily keep tabs on the teammate we have been studying with all year as he is back home in Texas. We just have to take advantage of every opportunity that we have. This summer could be very big for this blog, I want to get far in my learning and development of an app. We can grow so big in who reach to, too. A few of us are going to a conference in Cincinnati in July, where we can talk and promote this. Man I am excited to see what God has in store for everyone and myself this summer. It could be very good. With every chapter that God finishes in our life, he starts another. God is the author not only the Bible, but he is the author of our lives. He opens and closes doors on his terms. All we can do is trust in him and believe that what he has in store for us is not only for our benefit, but for his glory. There is always a reason why God opens and closes doors to things in our life. "I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close," (Revelations 3:8). God has a plan, he is the one that paved our path, and his word is the light to it.

Lord, thank you for all you do. Thank you for every up and for ever down. I pray I was able to glorify you in everything I did this school year. Thank you for all the new friends I made. Thank you for helping me grow as not only a man, but a man in you. I pray that you bless me and everyone this summer. Allow this summer to be a prosperous summer. In Jesus's name, Amen.

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