One Year (Part Two)

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I mentioned the other day that my journey has been one of pure reliance on Christ. I can't begin to tell you how true that is. I see daily confirmations that I am where He needs me to be; I look back on this last year and can remember numerous obstacles that could have (and even should have) stopped me, but I was able to overcome them all thanks to Him. When I first went down for my initial military processing, I was sent back home disqualified, and was basically told that there was no chance of me getting into the Air Force. But I was so certain that I was on the right path that I never doubted that God would provide a way, and He did. My situation was overlooked and resolved and I can look at it as nothing less than an act of divine intervention. And the divine intervening has not ceased. Just recently, there was the situation with my knee. It bothered me throughout basic training and continued to get worse into tech school. I was in continuous pain, to the point where every step I took was almost unbearable. It was healed overnight and I've been pain-free ever since. There's only one possible explanation for something like that. That incident served as an extra renewal of my faith; a boost of spiritual closeness when I really need one; and a way for God to express to me that He will get me through all of this as long as I continue to trust in Him. I see His hand in my life daily. I listen to His voice and I follow it. Of course, that doesn't mean that everything is perfect, or that I have become anything resembling perfect. I still lose focus; I still doubt every now and then; I still take my own path here and there. The difference now, as opposed to last year, is that I always end up wandering back onto His path rather than wandering continuously farther away from it. For quite some time now, if you were to ask me what verse in the Bible I would most want to live by, I would have said Isaiah 30:21 - Whether you wander to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, "This is the way; walk in it." - Sadly, though I would express the desire to heed that verse, I didn't do it. He spoke; I didn't listen. Now that I do listen, my entire life has changed for the better. With all the change, I had to give a lot of stuff up. My interests, my desires, many of the things that I spent my time doing had to change. Old habits had to be replaced with new ones. Tomorrow, I'm going to shift my focus a bit (though not as much as you may think) and talk about how my new-found secular interests have impacted my life over the past year.