As You Prepare to Graduate!

It seems a great deal of your life is spent mapping out your future. In school, you are encouraged to be looking to your future. As you enter college, trade school or the work force, you begin putting into motion the thoughts and planning you have worked up over your past formative years.

But as you take a good, hard look at the world from outside the classroom, you begin to realize that things are a bit different than you had expected them to be. Employers aren’t knocking down your door trying to get you on-board. In fact, finding a meaningful job can be quite difficult at times. Frustration can set in. Discouragement can arise as you realize things aren’t as easy as you had thought they would be.

The problem with our world today is that we have been forced away from the main thing. You have been duped into believing that your education is going to take you to great places only to discover otherwise. When the federal government forced schools to adopt policies which eliminated GOD from the classroom, students were forced to accept their fate—that being that it is all up to you to make your future.

You must get back to truth. You must realize that there is a divine course of action going on in this world that will not be changed regardless of what man should decide to do. GOD has a plan that will be fulfilled. He also has a plan for you. He said: “Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds, for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NET).

When you leave GOD out of the equation, you are left one wondering around, stumbling in a sea of untruth attempting to bring some order to the disorder—trying to plan for a future without a revelation of GOD’s true intent for you. Our world has disregarded GOD’s truth. We have been forced to accept the lie that this is it.

Hear me out, this is not it! GOD has great plans for those who will follow after Him. Those plans will probably look much different than you had imagined but GOD sees beyond today. He knows your tomorrow. He knows the potential of what you can become if you will only submit yourself completely over to following after His will.

As you prepare to graduate, choose GOD above all things! Choose His will, His path, His direction as you move forward into a world that lies unknown before you, but known well by the One who holds your tomorrow in His hands!

Scripture Reading: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil” (Psalm 3:5-7 NLT).

Prayer: Father in heaven, as I prepare to graduate and move on in life, I pray that I will be ever mindful of You and of Your plans for my life. I pray that my heart and mind will remain steadfast upon You as I step into a world that is overwhelmed by ungodliness. Help me, LORD, to stay in Your Word and to assimilate it into my everyday life regardless of the challenges that may come. I trust in You to bring guidance and direction to all that I do. I love You!…in Jesus’ name…AMEN!