Kelsey's picked her College! The University of South Carolina will be Kelsey's new home for the next 4 years! It's easy now for me to say I have a real peace about this choice ,but it hasn't always been that way.
For years I have been praying for Kelsey and her choices...not just college choices but a whole bunch of things Mommies usually pray for their daughters. I've prayed for her choices in friends, activities, church groups, missions trips, and yes even for her future husband and his choices! Does that make me a kooky Mom? Some might think so but not according to God's word..."Pour out your heart like water before the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children" Lamentations 2:19.
My mistake was probably not realizing that God's will for her life might not be exactly what I had thought it would be. My will was for her to pick a smaller, Christian University...perhaps Samford in Birmingham. Surely God did not want me to turn her loose to a big, huge University like South Carolina? No way would his will for her ever be that!! As the day got closer and it was more apparent to me that she was leaning towards USC, I actually got angry. Are you kidding me! I didn't send her to Christian School for 13 years to have her pick USC - "God are you there?" "Hello, haven't you heard my prayers for the last almost 20 years - work with me here!!" I decided to go down kicking and screaming !! THEN...
Isaiah 55:8-9
"My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
"My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
Wow! Did God say that? Yes he did! As I meditated on that for a while I slowly realized that if God's will is for Kelsey to go to USC then Kelsey will go to USC. And not only will she do great things there...most importantly, she will be right in the center of God's will. She is going to be exactly where God wants her. What better place to be. Kelsey knew this a long time before I did. That should tell you who has the most spiritual maturity!! A few years ago she knew God was calling her to the mission field. Funny, that I thought it would be after college...I had no idea it would be this fall.
1Samuel 1:27-28
"I asked the LORD to give me this child, and he has given me my request.
Now I am giving him (her) to the LORD, and he (she) will belong to the LORD his (her) whole life."
Now I am giving him (her) to the LORD, and he (she) will belong to the LORD his (her) whole life."
When we release our children into God's hands they are in good hands. And with that knowledge come peace and joy.
I am so proud of Kelsey for picking USC. She made a Godly decision. She will be challenged there. Her faith will be questioned and ridiculed, but she has a strong and mighty God on her side and she will shine like a city on a hill that cannot be hidden!
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
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