Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. –Proverbs 3:5

Several years ago I applied for a middle school science technology integrator position in a nearby county. I was finishing my degree in instructional technology, and I had taught middle school science for ten years. It was a done deal. Or so I thought.

Every day I ran to the mailbox to see if my interview card had arrived, and every day I went back into the house totally dejected. I had heard this was one of the tougher positions to fill so I could not understand why I did not at least get an interview.

I ended up with a position in the county I had been teaching in for ten years. I was grateful for the job, but still I wondered why God had “let me down” with the other position.

Several months later I was at a conference where I had the opportunity to speak to the director of the program from the other county. He had never seen my application. I was more frustrated than ever.

The cuts started the following year. The job I had so desperately sought, the one I had allowed to control me, was gone. If I had gotten that position I would have been out of a job. Instead, I was securely employed in a job I loved.

When you are discouraged in your circumstances, remember that God is in control. We don’t have to understand to trust. Do not lean on what you think you know from your limited view. Lean on Him and let Him walk you through it.