God is Healing Me from My Sorrow

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Given what God is doing for my family right now, I want to use this week’s post to praise Him for it! But to do that in the most effective way I can think of, I need to tell my story, beginning, middle, and end. Obviously, this will be a summary, not comprehensive, account, but it will be my story nonetheless. And may it show just how great He is!

The story starts at my Christian college. During my senior year, in the Spring semester of 2020, something was on the rise! That something, obviously, was Covid-19. In March of that year, right before Spring Break, the college announced that we would go all-online. For the rest of my senior year, I didn’t have any in-person time with my fellow students and my teachers. Like so many others, I was thrown into living all my life and spending all my time in my house. And while I would get more outside time as the years went by, I still felt a hole in my heart that I felt could only be filled by the restoration of that community’s presence in my life.

And now, more than 2 years later, God has granted my heart’s plea! In just two days, Lord willing, my family and I will move to the town where my Christian college is! While I obviously won’t live on the campus, since I’m not a student anymore, I’ll be looking for a job on campus so I can get to know, spend time with, and serve my brethren on campus, as well as have an income to support my parents and me. The point is, after what feels like a long time, God has restored to me what I’ve lost!

Now, none of this means that God wasn’t good in bringing what He did into my life the past couple years! Of course not! No, He was kind to me in all things He did for me during this time! Even if not all my circumstances were (or at least FELT) good, God Himself was nothing but good to me. Indeed, He can use such situations to show that He, all by Himself, is enough (no, more than enough) for the one who trusts Him only.

However, another thing He has taught me is that, while He definitely can sustain a Christian in isolation, that doesn’t mean the Christian should live in isolation when God’s providence permits him to be among the people of God. No, the Christian should, by all means that are in accordance with God’s Word, strive to be among His people!

And God is providing for my social needs now by bringing my family near the Christian educational community I once had to leave! The community I've wanted, for so long now, to return to! He is worthy of all my thanks, all my praise, all my honor, all my trust, and all my love for doing this for me!