Hidden Fears

Happy Last day of classes! I know you're probably stressed out about the remaining things that need to be done before the end of the semester but you made it this far so keep up the good work! The end is near!

Today's devotional touches on the subject of fear and how we deal with it. It okay to be afraid but it's important to acknowledge it and to trust God to help you deal with those fears.

You may view me as a confident senior who's got everything figured out and under control but I've come to a very scary point in my life. Graduating from high school, pretty much everyone went off to college and it was basically life as usual, with all of us returning to Boston on breaks and hanging out like the good old days. However, graduating from college is not like that at all. People are in the process of applying to school and looking for jobs all over the country. Even for those people (like myself) who plan to continue in our schooling, life as a graduate student is still "being a grownup" having to take care of everything on your own.

Fortunately, I've come to realize that even though I'm entering a new stage of my life that is very different from any previous level of responsibility I've ever had, there is one constant-- God. God has been faithfully watching over me through every step of my life so far, and he's not going to let me down now. So although the idea of possibly moving 3000 miles away from my family for the next 6 years of my life is still rather intimidating, I know that God will be right there with me, and if God is with me, I can overcome anything (Romans 8:31).

-AMR (didn't mean for it to end up quite so long..just read the passage from Samuel if you're short on time!)

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