Seamless Lives of Faith | Psalm 27:14
Luke Stockstill ‘25
“Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.”
Kicking off this week was a bit of a rally for the fellows - at least I assume so. It certainly was for me! After spending the weekend at Camp Rockbridge for our Middle School Breakaway Retreat, we were straight back into our normal weeks. For me, this meant a work retreat in St. Michael’s, Maryland. While the other fellows were learning about the Trinity and discussing all the crazy nuances of such a topic, I was setting up for the Flourish Fund. But we were all united in our fatigue, which made it a little bit harder to focus on things that many of us have top of mind.
In this season of our time here as fellows, I and others are exploring job opportunities, here and wherever else the Lord may be leading us. But the endeavor of trusting the Lord’s will has been weighing on me heavily as I send off applications, attend interviews, and speak with professionals in my field of interest.
It can be so easy to make a plan in my head and dedicate much of my time and energy towards that plan, but if it doesn’t come to fruition, I feel disappointed. Recently, however, I realized that this disappointment is a result of holding onto to my will harder than I hold onto my faith in the Lord, which brought me to this verse, Psalm 27:14. Operating on our own timeline with our own motives is easy; it’s what we know best, but it’s often just not how things work out.
My time at the retreat was full of worry that I wasn’t doing enough to find a job. “I’m checking all the boxes, but am I just stopping there?” was my mind’s persistent question. Doing the bare minimum is a valid concern, but you could always be doing more. What is actually important is that you do what is right in the Lord’s eyes, and trust that He is working all things together for the good of those who believe in Him.
My hope for myself and for the rest of the fellows in this season is that we are able to find the rest and peace that God offers to us, remembering that we are on a much longer timeline than we can imagine.