Life's Blueprints

**CRASH** I didn't see them coming, I really didn't. Didn't help that they were speeding and it was lightly sprinkling. I pulled off the road into the median and the next thing I knew I was surrounded by flashing lights. I'd been hit by a silver Chevy Impala. I started crying, not because anyone was hurt but I was totally freaked out. I was mostly upset that I had just wrecked my mom's car.

Pretty much everything was going through my mind. How are we going too buy a new car? Oh yeah the tax return is coming soon. But that was supposed to be the down payment on my tuition for Fountainview, now I won't be able to go. What about my insurance? Would it go up a ton because I'm a new driver or not because it wasn't my fault, after all THEY were the ones speeding. They don't have insurance,?! They don't even deserve to be 
driving! Now I wont be able to afford my insurance and I'll have to go back to mooching rides from everyone. **sigh** Is the car drive-able? How are we going to get back to Illinois if it's not?


As I write this I think back to my last blog post. Coincidence? I don't believe in coincidence, God always has a plan for everything. At school recently for worship we read Job 1:10, "Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of His hands, and His possessions have increased in the land." This verse was actually Satan asking God the reasons why Job feared God.

God put Job through many many troubles, it was hard for him, he lost his family, his house, his flocks and herds, his wife shunned him because he wouldn't reject God for everything He allowed to happen to Job, but Job never gave up on God. Job knew that all things would work together for good (Romans 8:28). And eventually, everything worked out for Job, he got everything back that he had lost and then some, but his faith in God was now stronger than ever.

God doesn't do bad things to us, He may however occasionally (or not so seldom), allow for bad things to happen to us because he knows when we come out on the other side of our trying time it will make us a better person altogether and increase our faith.

I'm not exactly sure that my fender bender was a "good thing" but I know that it will work together for good, God has a plan for my life, and He has a plan for your life.

Have you found your blueprints?