80 dias y contando

80 days and counting!!! Approx. eighty days until I leave for Honduras. That is less than three months!! So crazy to me how God has worked everything out for this to happen. It is so incredible. I'm 17 years old. I'm going to a country that I am absolutely in love with for around 10 months. I am graduating by the end of 2012. It doesn't even feel real. It so radically blows my mind. I don't deserve any of this, yet it is freely given. Where I couldn't see a path or a way, God paved the road. A way that seemed untravelable became a straight path. It's still hard, but it's possible. No matter what criticism or doubts people throw at me, I know that God is still rooting for me. You know who else thought that they were in hopeless situation? Job, watching members of his family drop like flies. The Israelites, burdened under the tasks of the Egyptians. The Israelites again, in the desert waiting for God to relieve them of their punishment, The Jews, waiting for their Messiah in a part of the world controlled by the Romans. These people were waiting, praying, hoping, even some were mourning. Many of them didn't see a light at the end of the tunnel. Many of them didn't see any hope on the other side of the equation. But God did. James 5:11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. Job 42:1-6 Then Job replied to the Lord: 2 “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. 4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ 5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. 6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Exodus 2:25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. Exodus 3:7-9 New International Version (NIV) 7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. Deuteronomy 31:23 The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.” 14 [Joshua] “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. Matthew 4:13-17 13 Leaving Nazareth, [Jesus] went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 14 to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: 15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— 16 the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”[a] 17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." Psalm 42:5