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As you slowly overtake the truck in the right lane, you keep glancing in your rear view mirror.  Before you change lanes back into the right lane, you want to be sure you have truly passed the slower vehicle.  So you keep checking.  Too quick and you might just bump the truck and cause serious damage. If you assume you’re past the obstacle without confirming, a disaster may result. Growing in your spiritual life is no different.  Most folks assume that once they decide to break a habit, let go of an attitude, or change a behavior they will automatically be okay.  But unless you put it in your past and with the help of the Holy Spirit truly put it to rest, it can become a hazard and trip you up. God is certainly calling you forward.  But He also gives the Holy Spirit to help you overtake and put to rest obstacles once and for all.  That way they won’t become hindrances when you least expect it.

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This is the year I was supposed to graduate.
But I feel like going one more, a victory lap.
It’s been interesting watching my friends who I grew up with here, those same friends that I did crazy things with as a freshman, fill out their intent to graduate forms, picking up graduation gowns, moving on with life after college. Yet they seem to be at the same place I am.
Unsure, scared, but excited!
I always looked at school as a a huge mountain. Every year since kindergarden, you climb just a little higher. I never realized what was at the top, but I knew it had to be fantastic!
I’d like to think that at the top is a parasail. God is up there, he says “Well done, now jump! Trust me.” and then we have a decision to make. I like how well APU has trained us to follow Proverbs 3:5&6 and to trust in the Lord, and it prepares us to take the leap and follow him wherever he wants us to go after this. Our lives are for him and in the last 4 years, if we have learned anything it’s this:
God First.

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