On Friday I had the privilege to be at my old college as the
degree students who started when I started my short course nearly three years
ago had their graduation service. It has been amazing to be back with them
again, having fun just like we did when I was studying there. Being back again,
it was impossible not to think about the two and a half years that had passed
since I finished studying at All Nations. It’s strange to think of what I had imagined my future was going to be and then to compare it to what is now. It could be
easy to think that I had planned so much but find myself exactly where I was.
But of course our plans are not always God’s plans, as it says in proverbs; in
his heart a man plots his course but the Lord determines his steps, and God’s
plans are always best!
Also, it would be wrong to say that I am in exactly the same
place. Yes, the buildings are pretty much the same, the atmosphere is as
electric as ever and I’m surrounded by many of the same amazing people, but
those same people are not the same as they were. They still have the same
unmistakable characters that made them who they were and define who they are,
but they are different. They are more. The last three years has changed them.
Shaped them. Grown them. Taught them. And I am so incredibly proud of them, not
just for getting their degrees, but for who they are. And not just them, but me
too, I am not the same. God has changed me. My classes may have looked a little
different but I have had the same God shaping me. With God there is no going
back, only going forward, even when He takes you back to where you have been
before.
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