He Didn’t Bring Me This Far To Leave Me

God is good. That is the first thing I will say in this post. He gets ALL the glory for what has happened in my life. Every part of my life.

A lot has happened in four years. My life has been changed in every way. The life I once knew, before “that day”, is gone. I still have precious reminders of my previous life, such as my kids and Chad’s family, but the old Lacey is GONE. What does that mean, GONE? It means Lacey observes life as a job, to glorify my savior who has so graciously took me from ashes and built a new creature to make HIM known.

In the past 4 years, I have lost my first husband in a horrible accident, remarried, raised two beautiful children, went to college, graduated with my bachelors degree in social work, went back to college, graduated with my masters degree in social work, and then obtained my license to be a licensed social worker in order to be a therapist for children and adults. And I hope to one day use my career to up lift the broken hearted and grieving souls. Nothing in this paragraph is to brag on myself, but brag on the ONE who gave me strength and power to lift me up and push me through.

A lot of people ask me how in the world have I made it this far with all that has happened. I tell them, GOD. I rely on HIM for everything. EVERYTHING! I am not saying I don’t worry , cause I do. I am not saying I am perfect, because I am not. I am saying that GOD has took his gracious hand, put it on my life and led me to a place where I see that I need HIM in everything I do.

In the last year, I have been preparing for my state licensure test. This test is not a piece of cake. It is hard and confusing. It is a anxious test takers nightmare. I knew that in order to pass, I would have to study hard and rely on GOD. I knew that if I trusted in Him and prayed for what I needed, such as peace, knowledge and power, I could conquer it. I imagined myself as little David facing a giant called Goliath. I imagined myself as Daniel in the Lions Den, Noah and the Ark, and Paul. I knew that if God could give them power, He could Still in this day allow me the same power. And why wouldn’t He, HE is the same God today as He was then.

As the day approached for my test, I asked everyone I knew to pray for me and pray that God would be glorified through this. The ones I asked, where the ones I knew would pray and pray and believe. The day I went in the for the test, I had the peace and the will to conquer the giant head on. I let God lead me and I trusted He would keep His promise to me,  He would never leave me and forsake me. I promised Him I would allow Him to use me for whatever He wanted to do if I passed or not. I allowed myself to let GOD take what is ultimately His, (ME) and do what HE wanted to do. I left that testing center praising God. I had passed!  And  As soon as I walked out the doors of the building, I reached both arms to the sky with tears and shouted “PRAISE YOU GOD!” These tears represented the thankfulness of how GOD has sovereignly led my life. HE has promised me LIFE, as He did Job. He has taken something I loved and a life I was comfortable with, but has given back twice as much as He has taken. He has allowed me to see his power and His love for me.

And y’all, He has promised me that I will never have to live without Him for the rest of my days. Whether I am here telling y’all how He has carried me through life or if  I am praising Him in Glory, He never left me. And looking back at what he has brought me from, I know He didn’t bring me this far to leave me.

No matter the situation, know you have a Savior that still kills giants, fights lions, and died for you to experience this power, peace and love.

In the book of Job, God restored Job’s life. He restored his whole life, not just his possessions, but his faith and hope in God. We may never understand, but we can understand that God is GOOD!

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

Job 42:10

And He sure didn’t Bring us this far to leave us!

Love y’all,

Lacey