Everything Serves a Purpose

I've been struggling lately. I've been busy. I've been stressed. Period.

Where is the source of these struggles and stress? Work.

But, I don't want this post to become about me and my complaints. I've struggled with where God wants me and what he wants me to be doing and I don't know why. I usually thrive on being busy-and the last few weeks have been nothing but busy. The difference is that I haven't been able to center myself with my family and personal time. Most people who hear from me often have hardly heard from me at all lately. I miss them.

Fortunately, I've been reading the book "Fearless" by Max Lucado. When things were stressful at work last week, I was able to remember the things Lucado has written about in order to let the worry slip off my hands and into Gods-especially worry about the future. Amazing.

Lucado says, "Some seasons make no sense." He goes on to list tragic events that leave us asking, do these events really have a purpose for the greater good? I often feel this in life. How in the world could this event (whatever it may be at the time) be for my greater good. I know though that  "all things work together for good to those that love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" -Romans 8:28

Have you ever thought about your eternal purpose? 

"What makes no sense in this life will make perfect sense in the next. I have proof: you in the womb....Every gestation day equipped you for your earthly life. Your bones solidified, your eyes developed, the umbilical cord transported nutrients into your growing frame....for what reason? So you might remain enwombed? Quite the contrary. Womb time equipped you for earth time, suited you up for your postpartum existence. Some prenatal features went unused before birth (your nose, eyes, tounge, etc.) but aren't you glad you have them now?" -Max Lucado

How freeing-to know that events that seem so far from "the greater good" may really be preparing me for an existence completely outside of my current "womb." Whatever God hands me is for preparation of an eternal glory. 

Thank you God.