Through the Unknowns…

My sister, Nora and I were talking yesterday about me moving to Africa  Yesterday, I received some e-mails from RVA that really hit home, and made me get emotional about the reality that I really am going to leave home in 11 weeks.  She was encouraging me to see this next step in life as a joy-filled journey that is going to shape and mold me into the person God is shaping me to be.  Someday, I know that I will look back and be amazed at God’s mercy and power through the unknowns, even if right now, it can seem scary and intimidating.  This morning, I was reading Job 23 and was particularly uplifted by great thoughts of the God who is going to Kenya ahead of me, and with me.  I don’t always see WHERE He is working, but what gives us faith is simply to know that He IS working.

Job 23

8 “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there,
and backward, but I do not perceive him;
9 on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;
he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
10 But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
11 My foot has held fast to his steps;
I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
13 But he is unchangeable, [2] and who can turn him back?
What he desires, that he does.
14 For he will complete what he appoints for me,
and many such things are in his mind.
15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence;
when I consider, I am in dread of him.
16 God has made my heart faint;
the Almighty has terrified me;
17 yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,
nor because thick darkness covers my face.”