Recently, I started a devotional called 4 7's devotional. It is a devotional that lasts 28 days and teaches you one way that you could do a daily devotional. The structure of it is that it has you pray and confess any sins to God that are on your mind or that you have committed and haven't confessed yet. It also has you give Him praise for things in your life. Then, it gives you a passage to read and meditate on. I just received a new Bible and I love it, it is a study Bible and has a lot of commentary and some explanations of the original Greek. After that, it has several questions that relate the passage to your own life and gives you space to answer the questions. To finish off, it has you pray again and thank God for who He is and what He has done and is doing. It is really great, if you would like a copy of this devotional or any other "Cru supplies", you can go to crupressgreen.com.
The first two days of this devotional (that's where I am at so far) talk about Elizabeth (John the baptist's mother) and Mary (Jesus' mother) before their children's birth and the birth of Jesus. Elizabeth was barren and both her and her husband (Zechariah) were "advanced in years". But, this is clearly no obstacle for God as Elizabeth becomes pregnant and later gives birth to John. This happens after Zechariah has a vision of an angel telling him of what is to come. An angel also appears to Mary telling her that she is going to conceive a child even though she is yet a virgin. An event that we know to be impossible due to the process of conceiving a child. Both of these events have something in common, they seem impossible. However, the key word there is seem. These things are impossible by earthly means but what is impossible by earthly means is entirely possible if God gets involved and that's exactly what He does.
The point of these devotionals is that nothing is impossible for God. We have to trust God and his plan for our lives even if something seems impossible. We cannot necessarily see where God is taking us in life because we are part of his painting, we can't see the big picture. A more modern day example from my life would be the road that lead me to going on this project. It all started back in High School with my chemistry teacher. There were two chemistry teachers, one of which was an excellent teacher, the other, not so much. I was placed in the better teacher's class which caused me to have a love of chemistry. The teacher that I had taught AP Chemistry as well so I took that class because he was a great teacher and caused me to love chemistry. Since I took this AP course, I was able to take organic chemistry as a freshman at the University of Michigan. This course is not an easy one so I formed a study group with people in my building. One of the people in my group was a girl who was involved with Cru and shortly after meeting, we started dating. I went to a few Cru events with her and then we broke up but I kept going to Cru events. I got more and more heavily involved and built great relationships with people. I was so moved by Cru that I wanted to go on this summer project and here I am. So, by a "random" chain of events I ended up here, leaving for a missions trip in a few short weeks. The reason that this seems impossible because if you asked me at any point prior to this semester if I would be going on a 12 week long summer project, I would have laughed at the joke. So, long story short, God has a plan and can accomplish anything!
God Bless and Go Blue!
Tedd Sheets Jr.
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