Experiencing The Sovereignty Of God [Part 2]

As some/many of you know by now, I decided to do a 40-day journey on a devotional book during the Lent Period. Instead of literally fasting from food for the 40 days, I decided to fast from something that was distracting me from connecting with God: Internet Communication/Connection. As you know, I've been using a lot of Facebook and chatting with many of you back in Canada. I had to reflect whether this was spiritually healthy for me as well as if it was a distraction in the ministry I'm in. I knew one thing was that I had spent less time with the Lord, connecting with Him, and instead replaced Him with connecting with those at home. I knew that there was a major problem in this so I left my 'post' for some time and currently half way through the 40-day journey. Well as you read this, you may ask yourself 'Where is Stephen getting to? The title of his blog states Experiencing The Sovereignty of God but he's not getting to the point.' I just wanted to give you a brief background of what's been going on.

So back to the sovereignty of God. A friend of mine went to a gathering called Teens Conference that is held once a year during the high school March Break period. As I was on my 40-day journey, I also forgot that Teens Conference was happening. After a few days that the conference had ended, one of the students that I was leading last year mentioned how great of a conference it was. That's where I remembered that my friend mentioned that she was one of the student leaders for her group.
She sent me a long email, telling me about her experience. There's a lot of details into it, but she was one of the individuals that I cared a lot in terms of her spiritual life since she was almost like a little sister to me. Before leaving Canada to come here, I had a hard time thinking to myself of how things will turn out if I leave to come out to the mission field, especially when I was in the middle of the process in doing discipleship with her. One thing that God reminded me from this email was that HE IS SOVEREIGN! That's pretty much been the major theme for me ever since coming out here. In all that He's doing with His infinite power and wisdom, things will work out not according to how I believe it should work out, but according to His plans. I tell you, it was a really encouraging email hearing/reading/seeing what God is doing with His children, transforming them.

Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.