Waiting

Last Saturday I made the move to Birmingham with the majority of my possessions in my Volvo Wagon and my parents' Hyundai Sonata. I was thinking that I was going to move in with a guy I had contacted through craigslist.org, but he ended up choosing a different person to be his roommate. I had made arrangements with my friends Micah and Heather to stay with them in case it didn't work out, thankfully. So now I'm just praying about what to do. It's a good but helpless feeling - it has made me lean on God's promises even harder - although sometimes I struggle to FEEL that they are true. Some verses that have been sweet are the last few verses of Romans 8 - that if God is for us, who can be against us? That if God did not spare his own Son, he will most certainly provide all the lesser things we need. That there is no condemnation for me - Christ died! That NOTHING can separate me from his love. And in Psalms there have been a lot that have been comforting, but to name a couple, Psalm 68 says God provides a home for the solitary (or lonely depending on the translation) and that he is the strength of his people. Deuteronomy says that the Eternal God is your dwelling place, and the everlasting arms are under you. Sometimes its hard to live in those promises, as sweet as they are. But I cling to them and know they are true. You can pray that I will wait well for the Lord until He provides what I need.