Four days prior to graduating with my Master's Degree, I was informed that my current teaching position would be filled by someone else because I did not have my professional teaching license.
In this moment and in the 2 months following this news, I felt peace like I had never felt before. This peace overwhelmed my entire being, and I felt the Holy Spirit's presence in a very distinct and inexplicable way. Throughout the next 2 months, The Holy Spirit continuously revealed to me Psalm 46:10, "Be still, and know that I am God." Despite all the worldly voices that told me that I needed to email principals my resume and follow up with the HR department, I continued to feel this inexplicable peace. The Holy Spirit kept leading me to Psalm 46:10, "Be still, and know that I am God." Exactly two months after receiving the letter from HR stating that I would not be employed the following school year, I received a second letter stating that my employment would continue without any interruption for the upcoming school year. There was and is no other explanation than, "It was a God thing!" My OCD, type-A personality that needs to know everything at all times is not the type of personality to just be still and not do anything; however, by God's mercy and grace that is exactly what I did. The rest of Psalm 46:10 states, "I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” You better believe that I told anyone and everyone who would listen to me that God gave me the same exact teaching position, in the same exact school, in the same exact classroom, teaching the same exact grade, and the same exact subject, all because I was still and knew that He would work it out for me. This was the start of an incredible school year, or so I thought.
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