Placement

Placement can be defined as 'the assignment of a person to a suitable place.' People are placed in your life in order to teach you, help you, point out your strengths, show you your weaknesses, and inspire you to become the best you can be. Some people are placed in your life permanently, to be your best friends, so that you may teach one another and grow together. Other people are temporarily placed in you life. Often these people have the greatest impact. Sometimes they point out your flaws, sometimes they teach you to view yourself differently, and sometimes their influence allows you to become who you truly always wanted to be. I believe that God uses placement in the sense I defined above. I believe people in my life have been assigned to me. New people sometimes enter and leave your life very rapidly; other times they stay forever. Recently, God has used people to show me my flaws, encourage me to better myself, and to be the pressure point that I've needed for quite some time. Throughout the past two and a half years in college, I have struggled to find myself. I had on idea what I wanted out of life, what I should major in, or who I should be. All of this confusion was due to the fact that I had put my relationship with God on the back-burner. I only asked for His guidance when things got "really bad" or in situations that "I" couldn't handle on my own. I've felt a tugging at my heart for years now. NEVER would I respond. I would sit in my seat and not move, refuse to talk to anyone about my feelings, and even go days without praying. The anxiety of trying to do EVERYTHING on my own, with ultimately NO guidance, was destructive, difficult, and terrifying. God placed new people in my life who could show me how to pray, how to listen to the Lord, and ways to live without being a typical college party chick. The tugging at my heart got stronger and stronger as I saw how great a life fully based on a relationship with the Lord can be. No I didn't realize the reason for some of these people being in my life until they were removed from my life, but now I realized how wonderful of an influence they have had on me. Even though the person God used as a pressure point for me is no longer a persistent presence in my life, God gave me wonderful, supportive friends who help me grow in the Lord. The clarity and peace I have received lately is unparallelled to anything I've ever felt before. Placement of people in my life has had such an awesome impact and I hope that God can use me to influence others in the same way.

-Change is Revolutionary.