Blessings

Today the pastor at the church I am going to talked about greed.  It was a bit different than I thought it would be, it was about our selfishness in abundance.  He used Luke 12:13-34, on the parable of the rich fool and on how we are not to worry.  The rich fool was so greedy with his abundance of grain that he build bigger barns and told himself to relax and not worry.  He relied on his supplies instead of God.  We can rely on ourselves and things, but we will always want more and become greedy for more.

It reminded me of my journey to Biola.  Everything came into place in His timing and clearly by His hand.  He provided the place that I live and the job that I work at.  I worked hard to find these things while I was still in Washington, but I can clearly see that it was God's hand that made everything come together so wonderfully.  I am reminded of His blessings and abundance to me and cannot take any credit for myself.

The most recent blessing that I received from Him was my promotion at my job.  I didn't even know that the position was open and God directed that supervisor to me!  They wanted me and they weren't looking at anyone else.  I felt that it was the same message as before: blessings are to bring glory to God, not praise for myself.  I can't take credit for anything.  I have worked hard, but it has been God who has blessed me.


Anyways, I just wanted to share what I learned today.  I'm going to make some spaghetti squash, I've been wanting some all day!  I'll leave with a picture of the awesome new yarn that I am using for my new knitting project:

Glittery!!!