In God We Trust

AllllllRiiiigght there friends. Its been a while since I've done my duty to the blog. I'm ready to start recommitting now though. First things first, the wedding was sick! The Bearrie boys represented hard and brought an awesome party. Thanks for getting everybody pumped and laying down a killer rap. I was so jealous that I didn't have a verse in that. But it was also just sick and I was stoked to be there.

I'm sitting in class at one of my first days in med skool right now. Its orientation week and some of these presentations get a little boring so I decided it was time to write a real quick devo up on here. I've felt very grateful lately for a couple big blessings that have come into my life lately. A couple big changes have occurred in my life lately including moving to Colorado, getting married, and starting a new school. Everything really came together kind of at the last minute. 8 months ago I really had no idea what I was doing. I was working really hard in school but I didn't have any guarantee that that work would actually get me where I wanted to go. That was kind of stressful. I also knew that if I did get into med school on this application cycle I would be leaving Utah and BYU very quickly and moving to a very liberal, non-Mormon state. This was scary for a couple reasons but mostly because I was a single dude who wasn't dating anyone and didn't have anything serious on the radar. I knew that both my time and my options to date would be very limited in med school and I was a little bit worried that I was condemning myself to a life of celibacy. Once I got into school I started worrying more about this doubting that I had spent the majority of my undergrad in the library and had not allocated enough time to dating.

I share that only because I know that all of us have had similar doubts and worries in our lives about either the same topics or totally different ones. Sometimes life requires us to go out on faith, not knowing whats ahead. As Paul said,

"For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. 5:7).

Giving us hope in these times the Lord says, "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers" (D&C 112:10); and again in Proverbs it is written, 

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6). 

I just want to bear testimony today that things work out in life. I have seen that in my own life. Sometimes it takes a while and our prayers and hopes in life are not answered in exactly the way we hope or in the time frame that we want; but I know that if we strive to love Him and serve Him and trust in Him patiently when we're not sure whats going, things will eventually work out. He loves us and He knows what we need in life to be truly happy. Lets trust that the Lord will take care of us and will bless us as we serve Him. 

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Cor. 2:9).

I want to say that of all my blessings I am most grateful to have my wife. She is an incredible lady that helps me a lot. Having her is totally worth any frustration experienced in dating and the continual, daily struggle to resist temptation and work to be a better man. I know that these things are true. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.