Purpose

Today has been a very long day and tomorrow does not seem to be much shorter. I have tons to do over the next week and I have a few tests which I need to study for. I know that I am not as prepared as I should be for my test tomorrow but I think I am prepared enough to do better than I did on the last test (we can only hope). I walked out of a class with no intentions of having deep thinking while walking back to the dorm but as I was walking back it seemed as if God had hit me with a door and told me to open my eyes. I have been told that I think on a very intellectual level, people even refute things I say with arguments that have no validity because they cannot stand to be wrong and there are times when my logic is just great. I have decided that Athletic Training is more than likely no longer what I am to do in life. I think my mind can be better stimulated and be put to better use than in the medical field. I am not saying that the medical field is too simple, but it is a lot of memorizing things and just duplicating things that have been done in the past. I am interested in dynamic things that are going to stimulate my thinking on a critical level that will help me express my own ideas based on training I have received. I am leaning toward sports management/administration and possibly becoming a player's agent down the road. This involves law, writing contracts and the such and I think it would be something that I would love to do. I think I planned everything out on my own just a little too quickly and God was and is still showing me what I am good at and the direction that he wants me to go. I have considered bible school and just going the pastor route but it is very expensive and I am not sure that it is what I am meant to do 100% of the time as a career. I am still looking at the part-time stuff and think that is definitely for me so we will see where that leads.

The reason I say that i may have jumped the gun on the career choice is that I was kind of unsure when I came whether I wanted the medical or business side of sports and because I had pretty much been invited to join athletic training right off the bat, I figured I would give it a shot. I love the training room, I love the fact I am around people but I just do not think that medicine is for me. In Proverbs 19:21 it is stated, "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." I think that I had been thinking about athletic training since high school and it seemed rather interesting but I have found that I prefer to think for myself and to help people more in the emotional and life sense rather than in just the medical sense. I like helping people succeed and giving them ideas, I love discussing things and working to get things that I find worthwhile. I think that we will go to any length to achieve or get something that we really want and if we apply that in the right aspects of life, we will not only help ourselves but we will help others as well. For example, when I started this blog, I had no idea who was going to read and I did not know if anyone would read. It started out as something I wanted to do for myself to show myself I could be in the word but God had bigger plans and his plans prevailed. He is trying to teach me through this but it is up to me to keep applying the things he is teaching me and I am getting better at that. He has humbled me and showed me that if i put him first, he will take care of me. Yesterday I woke up to find that my phone was dead as I had plugged my charger in wrong and I figured I had slept through my lab because I had gone to bed late, however, I plugged my phone in the right way and looked at the time which was 7:01 meaning I had woken up approximately one minute after my alarm had been set for. I spent an hour or so the night before sending a message to a friend I care about more than I ever thought I could and I poured my heart into them and God took care of me the next morning. Coincidence you might say? possibly, but God can also be responsible for the little things in life that we take for granted. All I am saying is do not limit yourself and think you can only do a certain thing. One thing I have learned is that a characteristic of an athletic trainer is the ability to adapt and as Christians and people, we have to learn to adapt in all aspects because we never know what is going to come at us next. It is a great feeling to know that God is watching over us though.

I hope everyone had a great day and I am praying for all of you. I know that the pressures of life can seem like a lot everyday but seek God and trust that he will pull you through. He will give you strength and help you through the day because he cares. Please continue to pray for me and have a great night.

God Bless,

Joseph Robinson