12 Aug
Winds of Change
This has been a whirlwind summer for me. I graduated in May and on August 21st I move to Cookeville, Tennessee to go to college at Tennessee Tech University. It’s just over an hour’s drive from where I live now, but still, I just feel like everything is happening so fast and I’m realizing that things are about to change—big time! I’m excited about all that is about to happen—I already spoke with many of the professors, and I have several friends going there with me, and I scoped out the restaurant scene there and found that there is a Fazoli’s and a CiCi’s pizza just a couple blocks away from the campus so I’m good to go (perhaps I should also find out where the closest gym is now). But I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous also.
Change has always been hard for me to accept, because I don’t like feeling as though I’m not in control. But God always carries me through those situations and uses them to remind me that I’m not in control–He is! That’s the way it should be because His plan and His timing is perfect, and I can only see a very little part of what He has in store for me. But beyond that, God has also showed me during times of transition and change that He is the unchanging One. When I move to college and everything around me changes, God is still the same.
But when I still want to give in to my doubts or fears of what lies ahead and I can always look to the past and remember that God has never let me down.
When I moved across the country from Tennessee to Connecticut in middle school, and three years later moved right back to Tennessee, he was right there with me guiding my every step. Each of those transitions brought with them a hand full of challenges and adjustments, but God was faithful just as he promises in Matthew 6:
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear … Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? … . Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Matthew 6:25, 26-27, 34
So while I’m still anxious about all that is about to happen in my life, I am grateful to serve a God that has it all figured out, because I certainly don’t. I can cast my cares on Him and rest in the knowledge that He will be faithful, just as He has always been.
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About the Author
Jonathan Frank is a freshman at Tennessee Tech University majoring in Political Science and Journalism, but still calls Goodlettsville, Tennessee home. He loves his crazy family of six, blogging, his ipod, Fox News, queso dip and his home church- Long Hollow Baptist, where he helps with the children’s ministry dramas. Upon graduating college, Jonathan wants to pursue a career in broadcast journalism. You can contact him on Facebook or at his blog- jonathansthoughts.wordpress.com.
