As I drove home today...

... there was a rainbow in the sky.
And the way I see it, that rainbow made the perfect ending to my week.

I am tempted to say that the past 3 weeks have been the craziest weeks of my entire life. But, though I don't deny that they were indeed busy, as I look back on them I think the most overwhelming theme was not my busyness, but God’s never-ending faithfulness. He is the One who pulled me through - I am sure of it.

When I started my economics class 6 weeks ago, I had no idea what I was getting myself into; it was my first non-Christian school class since the 2nd grade and I went in without knowing a single soul. Additionally, I knew the class would overlap Biola by 3 weeks, but I had no idea what that would imply. I wasn’t expecting to learn any big lessons or anything; I was just trying to get a class finished. Little did I know that God would use this little period in a big way to show me more of His unfailing character.

After I wrote my blog a little while back on “Economics and a Trained Mind,” I started to think about how I could begin that process of training my mind to think of God more often, especially when I would have so much less time once school started up again. I decided, then, to maximize my time where I could and chose to spend my 1 ½ hour car rides practicing thinking about God. Rather than dreading these long drives for how much time they took away from homework, I soon began to appreciate and even look forward to them instead. It was during these times that I was able to stop being busy and to reflect, pray, contemplate, strategize, and listen for my Savior. Through these physical car journeys, I felt as though God were taking me through spiritual journeys… one after the other. To name a few, He taught me that I can do nothing except through Him, that I am selfish with my time, that surrendering my time to Him is a conscious choice I have to make (and work at), that He has supernaturally and strategically placed certain people in my life for a reason, that I should let the love He has shown to me overflow into those people, that love often includes sacrifice, that He will never grow weary, and so much more. The more I made these drives to and from school, the more I realized that God rejuvenated me through them so that I was able to do what needed to be done while dwelling in His grace.

By His grace, I am now finished with that economics class and all the homework/time-commitment associated with it. As I drove back today, then, I realized that it was the last of these regular journeys with God and that I was going to miss them. So when I saw the rainbow in the sky, I was immediately reminded of God’s never-ending faithfulness through it all. I did survive… but it was only through God. To quote myself a few weeks back: “If I’m going to survive this busyness, it is not going to be because I triumphed and figured out how to manage my time on my own; it is only through God that I can do this, in fact, it is only through God that I can do anything at all.” And that is exactly what happened. God is faithful! I am fully convinced of it and am stoked to tell you about it. I share this with you in the hopes that you will rejoice with me in who God is, and in what He has done, is doing, and will do. Our God is an awesome God!