*PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT ALL ABOUT WHAT MATT DID FOR ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY; THERE IS A SYMBOLISM BEHIND IT. READ IT ALL PLEASE!*
It was my 16th birthday on March 17, 2009.
For my birthday; my wonderful boyfriend, Matthew James Pshock, surprised me at school! I also had a bad day at school that day. It was overwhelming and hard, but when I heard Matt’s voice I immediately got a smile on my face and cheered up. Then when he said he was at my school, I was even happier and started to look around for him. He found me and I went running to him. We got in his car but I had no idea where we were going or what we were doing! He had it all carefully planned out already.
He drove me down a dirt path and told me to close my eyes; I did. When the car stopped I opened the door and looked around. I was surprised to see an empty field with woods in the back.
He told me to put a blindfold on because I could not know where we were going until we arrived there; I did so.
When I stepped onto the field I was surprised to find out that it was muddy. As Matt was guiding me through the muddy field, we stopped and he had to run off to prepare where we were going to go. I just stood there and waited patiently, all the while still having my blindfold on. While I was standing there I just began to think.
I heard him calling from behind so I spun around; realizing it was him and I started to somewhat walk to him but it didn’t work that great because I was blindfolded. He then came to my side and grabbed my hand. He asked if I was ready to go to where ever it was he had prepared and I said ‘yes.’ He then led me through a muddy field and into the woods, where sticks were everywhere but he walked in front of me to push all the brush and twigs out of the way and make sure that it was safe for me. He decided that the woods got too muddy for me to walk through them, so he carried me on his back through them. We got close to the spot and he told me to take off my blind fold so I could walk carefully through the rest of the woods. When I took off my blindfold, I could only see I little peek of what he had done. We finished walking and we got to our destination and it was a adorable little picnic that he had prepared. I was ecstatic because it was amazingly cute. =]
Later I started to think about the walk through the woods and how hard it was; I started to relate it to my life and my walk with Christ. Here is what I came up with: At this certain time in my life; I was not doing all that great because I was struggling like crazy (and that’s a huge understatement). Then God interceded and the sound of his voice and his presence made me get my life back on track. The moment that I was reborn in Christ, was the moment that I got in the car with God, but I had no idea where we were going or what we were doing, but he had a perfect plan me for already.
When I saw my life, after I had been reborn, I was surprised to see an empty field; it was no longer full of all the mistakes I had made or anything else that I had dealt with. God had wiped it clean and cleared it out.
Then God had me put on a blindfold, because I couldn’t see everything that he had planned for me yet and I had to trust in him and in what he had.
Everything with God cannot always be perfect, but sometimes you don’t know that right out of the gate. Therefore when you step into your new life you are surprised to find that it is a muddy field. That’s when storms of life come in and you go through sticky situations. The same thing applies to me; I go through struggles; hard times and I have burdens. That is the muddy field and just as Matt was guiding me through it; I know that God guides me through it. During our walk Matt had to stop and run off to go prepare the picnic. Just like that God has to go off and plan your life, but he is still there and will always be there. This momentary pause gives you time to think and ponder. You also need to be patient and wait; knowing that God has it under control.
Then, out of nowhere, God will call to you from behind and you will spin around eagerly and try to walk to him, but you can’t because you’re blindfolded. Luckily you can rest assured and know that he always comes to you in your moment of need; the moment where you’re sitting there crying because you don’t know what to do anymore. He will come and grab your hand, he will ask if you’re ready to go and he will lead you through the muddy field and will help you through the woods. In the woods, there are sticks everywhere and you may trip but God is walking in front of you and moving everything out of the way so that you can be safe.
According to 1 Corinthians 10:13, “No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face; all you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.” Which means that God never gives you more than you can handle; when he thinks your situation is too much to handle he picks you can and carries you through it.
When you get close to whatever God has prepared for your life; he then tells you to take off your blindfold so that you can see a peek of it, but he doesn’t reveal everything to you yet. He also wants to make sure that you make it through the rest of your woods safely. When you finish your walk and get to the final destination it is usually pleasing and amazing. When you arrive at the final place, you realize that all your trials and getting all muddy was worth it because you now get to see something that is so much more mind-blowing than you could have ever done on your own.

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