God has been with me my entire life. I didn’t always know it. I didn’t always feel it. But He was. I may not have gotten all that I wanted because sometimes what I wanted wasn’t right for me. It may have felt right at the time, but in hindsight it wasn’t right. Sometimes I saw this hindsight vision and sometimes I just had to trust that what happened or didn’t happen was right.
I had many plans in life that somehow didn’t come to fruition. This is because my thinking is far below God’s thinking. My many unfulfilled plans just prove that I have a God-given imagination that can see beyond reality. Each dream of mine led to something else and got me closer and closer to where God wanted me to be.
I made a lot of mistakes too. I did wrong, thought wrong, and had to change course a lot. But God has always been there to offer me second and third and fourth chances.
I have overcome challenges of rejection from people. I still fight insecurity but I’ve kept my positive, friendly demeanor, and spirit.
I have never really felt “pretty” but by God’s grace I am feeling more and more “beautiful” with every passing year. That is the opposite of the world’s thinking. The world says you may be pretty when you’re young but every day you age and grow not-so-pretty. But, by God’s grace, I feel more and more beautiful with each passing day and year.
I have been hurt by people who didn’t know what they were doing. The more wisdom that I attain, again by God’s grace, I realize that those people were hurt people themselves and hurt people lash out at other people for revenge or simply to make themselves feel more secure by knocking others down. I came through everything that hurt my feelings with my spirit intact.
As I see all of the ways that God has brought me through this life unscathed and better off, I can see that God will continue to see me through every challenge and every problem. I will prevail and overcome and I won’t stop until I do.
God is always with me. He is with me to dry my tears. He is with me to give me wisdom. He is with me to give me a push or even a kick in the pants once in a while. He is with me to whisper encouragement to my soul on a daily basis.
He is with me and for me. Who can be against me?
