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ANNOUNCEMENT
First I would like to say that there are some changes. This is probably going to be a devotions blog and I'll go back to my other blog as more of a day to day environment. So if you're not so much a fan of the devotionals (which I think are super great), then you can simply click on this blog link and you'll be directed there. I enjoy blogging, so you'll probably see a growth in my entries (dating back to 2009).

ACTUAL DEVOTIONAL
Today's devotion comes from :drum roll: Psalm 119: 105-112

'God Knows'

While moving back into my school apartment the other day, I received a call from my sister, who also attends university in the States. She called complaining about how all the classes she'd wanted/needed to take are full, except one class. She spoke with a loud, impatient voice explaining how the money for the loan had not come through so she decided to check up on her classes once more in hopes of finding some of them open. She clarified to me that if she does not get into certain classes, that would make her chances of entered the business school impossible.

I knew all about the problems and implications of these events. No loan, no classes. No classes, no grades. No grades, no business school. No business school, change of major. That would be a wasted semester or she'd have to transfer. This all sounds bad and makes me so sad to hear it, but there was this confidence that I received: God Knows.

God knows that if she doesn't get these classes, this means big wahala (trouble/problem in Yoruba). It does. And He knows that no matter how proactive, determined we are, there is no way we can change or speed up a system. Only He can. He will not let us be put to shame, nor will He leave us as orphans to fend for ourselves (John 14:18). He wouldn't do that. And the simple fact that God indeed knows everything that we are going through and has made promises upon promises to never leave us or forsake us. He is our helper (Hebrews 13: 5 & 6).

So, this passage made me think of is how through the storm, the word that came to mind when talking with my sister was the word of God. This is what the psalmist was talking about in verse 105: how God's word made his way visible and he was able to see what was before him because he had God's word.

There's so much more to this passage and I think it has to do with the importance of following God's word (something I am working on) and be consistent in it, but this stuck out to me and wanted to share it with you. This life can get so twisted and out of whack, but the single hope that I can hold on to (Hebrews 10: 23) the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful. That's my God. Faithful. So, I refuse to let the devil get the worst of me. In Jesus name no.

Life was not made to be travelled through alone. Thank God for God.

Much love, peace, and God grease,

Ife 'Quipayan' S.