Never Alone

Okay I am going out on a limb here and being a super stereotypical 19 year old. I am uber obsessed with One Tree Hill. Like watch all the episodes on Netflix, want to be Brooke Davis, and team Peyton and Lucas. Pretty much in love with the whole show. If you have ever been lucky enough to watch or keep up with the show (if you are into high school drama between cheerleaders and basketball players I definitely recommend it!) you know one of Peyton's majors themes that she talks about is that people always leave. From her mom passing away, to an on again off again relationship with Lucas Scott, she mentality learns to not to get too attached to someone and always expect them to devastate you and leave you eventually.
As Christians, we are reminded that God is always with us, and like Santa, he is always watching us. One great thing about knowing Jesus is that we are never alone, and He will never leave us. How cool is it to know that we will literally always have a friend, always have someone loving us, always have someone looking out for us. Naturally though, we want to forge our own path. We want to discover our great adventure and go out on our business with relying on Jesus to get us through. Like Peyton, we don't want to fully trust something or give ourselves fully to someone. But we need to realize that can and should fully trust Christ. We must give our life over to him completely and completely trust him to do what is right for us. Now this by no means mean that I am telling you this and not doing it myself. Honestly, this is really hard for me. From school to relationships, I constantly want to fight God tooth and nail and make my own decisions instead of giving my heart fully to Christ and letting him direct my path. A year ago, about this time, I was really involved and participating in training to become a YoungLife leader. I wanted to go out and preach the message to middle and high schoolers in hope that they would choose to follow Jesus. As this process progressed, I felt more and more like this was something that maybe I was not meant to do. Something just felt wrong about it, so I started praying about it. I was able to give that problem to God so that he could help me make the decision. Long story short, God showed me that it was not my path. I was, and am supposed to volunteer at the church I go to, Blue Ridge Church and help with Sunday school. I may never know why God did not choose me to be a YoungLife leader, but I am so thankful that I gave that problem over to him and He helped me make the right decision. Who knows where I would if I have become a YoungLife leader. God also made sure that through this decision I would not lose friends. I am still friends with every single person I made during that training and that Christian support chain has been life altering. Giving our problems over to God completely is very hard for us to do. But when we do it, it is liberating and works to bring us closer to God. Have a great day people, God is rooting for you!
BTW - I love post season 4 Brook Davis the most. :)