I haven’t always known what I want to be, but I’ve always known WHO I want to be.
Everyone asks first graders what they want to be when they grow up. Some say astronauts, some say veterinarians, and others say firefighters. My mom may say otherwise, but I can’t remember a time when I thought, “YES, THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO DO WHEN I'M OLDER!” I probably just said something because I had to. Honestly, I feel like that may not have been a bad thing because I guess I wasn’t too worried about my future at the time.
~flash forward 13 years~
I still don’t know what I’m doing!!
It’s fine.
I’m trying to trust God with each step I take, even if I can’t see the whole picture (but that's for another article).
However, I have known who I want to be and I think that’s more important. Our majors, jobs, and careers are so minuscule and unimportant when we think about eternity. God cares more about my heart than how I make money because it’s His anyway. So, as I’m in college and working hard to be the best *fill in career here* I can be, I’m also working on becoming the woman God created me to be. So here’s a couple things that are important to me and ~what I want to be when I grow up~.
- I’ve known I’ve wanted to be someone who people know there’s something different about because I radiate the love and joy of the Lord. I want people to know I love God because of the way I live and carry myself, and by the way I love and serve others because Jesus did the same for me. I want Him to be the center of everything I do.
- I want to be an awesome wife. One of noble character, strength, and dignity (Proverbs 31). One who can laugh at the days to come aka not worry about my life or what job I will do, because Matthew 6:26 says, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” I want to be someone who fears the Lord and have a husband that can say in full confidence “’Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’” (Proverbs 31:29)
- I want to be a good mother. Psalm 127:3 says children are a blessing from the Lord and it’d be awesome to have little people that are half me and half the person I love running around. I’ve always loved kids, so it’d be cool to have my own down the road.
- I want to be a good friend. Life is hard sometimes and we all need someone who is trustworthy, a good listener, and someone who gives good advice. We aren’t supposed to walk this life alone and we need a solid community and inner circle friends that continually push us toward the Lord. So I want to be an encouraging, “iron sharpening” friend.
