New Beginnings

Today is my first full day in my new place as a graduate student. So far I really like everything here. Although I must admit it is a little shocking to be here already. This week has flown by and it feels like all I had time to do was climb up the high dive and jump without a lot of preparation. Not being prepared is definitely outside of my character. I am someone who really likes to have everything I might need, just in case. Although I'm not really talking about packing here. I am talking about being ready for a big change. I am so use to moving in and out of school that by now I have a somewhat automatic switch that turns on when I have to do all of my packing and cleaning (preparation). When I finally had most of my things unpacked yesterday I realized how alone I was. Yes, I had all of my things, but nothing was familiar. Not the street, the town, the house, the smells, the people. Everything is so much different. I kind of went into shock when I realized all of the change that just took place in my life. Even though I felt lonely, I knew that God had never left my side. I spent time praying last night for his direction. This morning I spent time in the word and opened up to Romans 8:18 this is what I read...

Future Glory

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

I am not completely sure of what God is telling me through this yet. But I know it is something good, and encouraging. As the passage says, I wait eagerly for redemption and hold out hope in Christ for what I do not yet have as I try to wait for it patiently. I am encouraged that God helps us in our weakness and intercedes when we don't know what to pray.