The Book of Genesis gives us the one of the most staggering witnesses to the inevitability of change:

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” 8:22 KJV

God in His manifold wisdom has ordered the cosmos in a manner which all things go through the process-event of change. Change is experiential. All of creation is not exempt. The smallest quasar; to the hottest star; the largest solid object; the smallest child; the oldest woman; they all experience change in their state, condition, context, or even being.

I am experiencing a change as I write. I am graduating from college on the 10th of May. My body experiences the symptoms of this change. My left eye twitches uncontrollably. At times I cannot sleep. I’m excited, anxious, and nervous. Then suddenly I am at peace. I’ve been in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for almost five years. I became a man here. I was seventeen when I started. I’m twenty-two now and in ten days I will be walking down an aisle before thousands of people receiving my diploma case. The diploma will come in the mail two weeks after the commencement celebration.

I will leaving Penn’s Woodlands for the Big Apple in July. The French Culinary Institute is where I will matriculated for six to nine months. Then off to seminary or grad school. My God how time goes by.

I was with a couple of friends this evening celebrating our achievements as University banquet for minorities. Many tears were shed. Many let out shouts of joy and elation. It was also bittersweet.

I cried so many tears. I laughed so many times I can’t count. I prayed. I lamented. I had my good days and bad ones too. I fought people. I fought my flesh. I fought devils. Some wins. Some losses. Yet through it all God has kept me to see to the end. And now I am on the brink of new beginnings. He has so much in store. What a mighty God we serve!

The greatest thing about is that I’m grateful for the peace of God to know that His will is greater than all my fears and aspirations. Too many want God to be a motivational speaker to help us to accomplish our goals in life. He didn’t created us for that. God has created us to serve Him. I think it’s the Westminster Smaller Catechism that says that the duty of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. That’s a place I’ll continually pray to be founded in. Enjoying God forever. Wow.