Baby steps

It's interesting to me how God, when He leads, never shows me more than the next step, and sometimes not even that until I'm already into it. It is a lesson in faith, in trusting that He knows where He is leading, even when I do not. To give a recent example: before I went to Mexico, I did not have any idea what would be happening afterwards. None. In about May I applied to work a week at camp, because I felt God telling me to. That was the last week of July, and I knew that I wanted to take July off anyway to readjust to life here. And so because it was impractical to look for a job for three weeks, my parents, whom I am living with, were okay with this idea. So coming home I still had no idea what I was doing, though I knew I needed a job. Then during TREK debrief, God told me to apply to work at a flour mill in Saskatoon. So I didn't really look very hard for a job my first few weeks of July, and after working at camp I had an interview at this mill. My dad told me I ought to go put out my resume in other places, just in case I didn't get it, but I said no because I was fairly confident I was going to. And I found out yesterday that I did get it. And so God has once again shown me the next step in my life, right before it was time for it to happen. The part that to me is funny is that this job is only until Christmas. After that I have to look again. But I feel that when the time comes, God will show me the next step. He has never yet left me hanging. He just answers things in His own way, in His own time. And I see no reason to panic, when I know what I am supposed to be doing the next five months. Why plan years in advance? "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'"