I student taught in 1st grade and 4th grade and in May I graduated with a degree in Early Childhood Education. I also got MARRIED :)
For the past several months I have been searching for a teaching job. It's August 1st and I still don't have one. But I am OK. I wasn't but now I am. All because God is using this season to teach me and to draw me to Him. And for that I am SO thankful. Just today He has shown me SO much and I wanted to share it here so that it may give hope to someone else and so that I can look back and remember how faithful my God is.
"I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a safe place." - Psalm 31:7-8
"If you think your suffering is pointless, or that God is not in control, then your suffering will drive you to God - as it should. So it is crucial that faith in God's grace includes the faith that he gives grace through suffering." - John Piper
"God so values our wholehearted faith that he will, graciously, take away everything else in the world that we might be tempted to rely on - even life itself. His aim is that we grow deeper and stronger in our confidence that he himself will be all we need. He wants us to be able to say with the psalmist, 'Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail but my God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.' Psalm 73:25-26" - John Piper
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you face trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." - James 1:2-3
"If you live gladly to make others glad in God your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full." - John Piper
"And I am certain that God, who began a good work in you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." - Phil. 1:6
"Tell God what you need and THANK HIM for all he has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand." Phil. 4:6-7
"Love of money is the alternative to faith in God's future grace. It is faith in future human resources. Therefore the love of money, is the underside of unbelief in the promises of God Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, 'No one can serve two masters...you CANNOT serve God and money.' You can't trust in God and in money at the same time. Belief in one is unbelief in the other. A heart that loves money - that banks on money for happiness - is not banking on the future grace of God for satisfaction." - John Piper
"Hope in God! - Trust in what God will be for you in the future. A day of praise is coming. The presence of the Lord will be all the help you need. And he has promised to be with you forever!" - John Piper
"His timing is perfect, but it is rarely ours." - John Piper
"If you don't point people to God for everlasting joy, you don't love. You waste your life." - John Piper
"The world doesn't need your pain, nor do they need your painless joy. What the world needs most from us in joy IN the very depths of pain." - John Piper
"Yet IN (not after) all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." - Romans 8:37
"Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ." - John Piper
"Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll keep you steady, keep a firm grip on you." - Isaiah 41:10
