life is hard, but God is good

This week, I 've really been struggling with some issues in my life.

#1. I hate the fact that I hate my job. At first, I started my job thinking I was making a difference. Now, I think I am enabling people to stay poor. I have been thinking about possibly moving from Starkville, the place I love, and maybe starting fresh somewhere. I had only been thinking this in my head, and last Friday, I voiced these thoughts to two girlfriends of mine. As soon as I said it out loud, I had doubts. Then, in my devotional, My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers had this to say " a Christian worker has to learn how to be God's noble man or woman amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea- If only I were somewhere else!.....Never choose to be a worker, but when God has put His cal lon you, woe be to you if you turn ro the right hand or to the left" (that's the Oct. 25th entry)

#2. Like most people I know, I have been struggling with sin. I know, I know, its just human nature, but it's so frustrating when you fall into sin. I had really been down on myself about a particular sin of mine, and I began to think about one of my biblical heroes, Paul. Paul said in Romans, chapter 7, verses 15 and following " I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate to do...(v19).... for what I do is not the good i want to do; no, the evil i do not want to do,- this i keep on doing"

It is so amazing to me that God hears the cries of our hearts and gives us the strength to get through all of our trials, no matter how trivial they are.