"He Left Nothing Outside His Control"

          Life is crazy, time is flying, my future is unknown, and I have less than ONE week left on the ship!!!! Last Thursday, I was starting to get stressed about the future, what type of nursing position do I look for? Where do I look for a job? Should I stay in the states? Should I look at international nursing jobs? Who will be there? Will I be able to make new friends? Will people understand me? Should I consider going back to school? What does my future look like? 

  I was starting to go crazy with trying to figure out all these answers plus answers to additional questions. It finally reached a point where I had to find one of my friends and say, ‘hey, are you free because I need a reality check right now.’ We ended up having a really great conversation over a cup of tea. At the end of our chat, I didn’t know and still don’t know the answers to any of those questions. She reminded me that God has everything under his control.

Later that very same night, I was reading my bible and flipped to Hebrews for some reason. I read some and was thinking, “okay this is good, but how does it apply to what I’m struggling with right now?” When I looked back down at my bible I saw this verse.  

“Now in putting everything in subjection to him,

he left nothing outside his control. 

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.” 

(Hebrews 2:8 ESV)

“he left nothing outside his control”

Wow, I heard it from my friend and now I just read it from scripture, God is amazing! I really have no reason to hang on to this need to control my life and instead I should let go of my stressing out about the future and trust God. It’s not easy. The unknown future is still in the back of my mind, but it's not consuming all my thoughts. The really cool part, now that I'm not so focused on the future I can actually enjoy the present moment. How cool is that?