I found this and I decided to just go ahead a post it! This is the class address that I gave to Buxmont Christian’s Senior Class of 2001. It still really applies and is much of a reflection of my life in 2001 - many things have changed, but this very address had a very big part in getting a hold of my heart in turning my life back over to Christ all over again. To me it still gets a hold of my heart, takes me back and has those principles to remind me my dreams matter to God and yet His plans are huge for my life when I give it to Him!
“Throughout our lives we have all had teachers and mentors. We can remember that certain someone who has influenced our lives, encouraged us to move ahead, rebuked us when we’ve done wrong, and has been an example for us to follow. I feel incredibly blessed that God gave me loving parents, my teachers, who not only cared about my academic training, but they desired to raise me to love the Lord with all my heart, to seek His stillness for my life and to always wait on Him. Being still and waiting are two very difficult words to live by in an age where everything is at high speed. You want to read a book, get the condensed version for quicker readability or the audio version to listen in the car. Any type of information you need you just hop onto the Internet and everything you need is a click of a mouse a way. Need something to eat? Swing by McDonalds, and they’ll have your order ready in 90 seconds. Don’t forget about cell phones to make sure we are always in touch with friends and family in one touch. We get so caught up in this fast pace move ahead society that it is easy for us to lose focus of the will our Heavenly Father has for our lives.
Psalm 46:10 tell us “Be still and Know that I Am God”. There must be a peace found in His stillness that He requires us to be still in Him. Our Senior Class verse is Isaiah 40:31 “For they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint.” How can we stay still and maintain the patience required of us when the world is so quickly moving around us? Many major life decisions are made with in the first seven years after leaving highschool. What is the best way to make these life choices we have?
My life verse has always been Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Many times we read God’s words and promises from the Bible, but so many times they really seem just like words to read for the moment. Many people have never taken the blessing of trials to teach us to trust in our Heavenly Father. Even though all of God’s words are meaningful, what life lessons have we applied to trusting them? In the past few years of life I have experienced many trials where I really had to put all my faith in Christ alone. Putting my full, unwavering faith in Christ, hasn’t and still isn’t always an easy thing for me to do. I’m the type of person who likes to have everything detailed and all figured out knowing exactly what I am supposed to do. Sometimes I wish God would just send me an e-mailing telling me what I am supposed to be doing at any given moment in any given decision, but He has already given me His word, He tells me to be still and wait on Him. The Bible really already has all the answers to anything life could possibly throw at you. In the words of Solomon, “there is nothing new under the sun”. During my times of trials, God has always brought me back to a point of realizing that I need to stop trying to take control of my life and simply trust Him. There have been plenty of times where I would tell myself ‘yeah Megan, your trusting God, things are fine’, but in my heart I knew that I wasn’t giving Him my all. The impatience in my heart was keeping me from being at peace with my loving and patient Savior. The Lord is still teaching me to stop trying to sit in the Pilot’s seat and let Him be Captain.
These past couple of years I’ve gone through many things that most people don’t go through in a lifetime. There where often times with no real answers in sight, and confusion as to what to really do. My parents constantly reminded me that my trials were a time to be still in the Lord and to take time to grow in Christ. I was so desperate for answers. God’s Word was my only true source of comfort when I decided to submit to Him and turn to His Word. I took courage found in Jeremiah 29:11-13 “For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, plans of peace and not of evil, plans to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Then you will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all of your heart.” Suddenly the Bible has a personal meaning to me again, it was no longer something I read because I wanted to be able to say, “of course I had my devotions today”. When I am weak, God’s Words help me to become stronger. Instead of worrying about my situation, I was reminded by Matthew 6:33-34 to take action and “seek first the