Subject: Knowing God's will under short notice |
Bible Note: Scribe, Thank you so much for your response. I read and worked through What Color is Your Parachute before I found my current job. It was a very rewarding and thought provoking experience. After doing all of the exercises, I concluded that God wanted me to be in some sort of music ministry. However, no opportunites were available in the small Southern Utah town where we had recently moved. Thanks to an old friend of mine, who set me up with an interview, I currently work in a residential home for people with mental illness. It is a terrific job, but I am finding it difficult to support my family on the wage I am earning. The opportunity I was mentioning in my question was about returning to a job I previously had working with incarcerated youth, where the pay is much better. However, the deadline for the applications to the current opening was today. I view both jobs as ministries, and seem to have a gift for working with severely troubled people. Anyway, my wife and I and our four children moved to our current place of residence so that my wife could finish school to become a special education teacher. At the time we felt that God was leading us in that direction, and currently she only has one year of college left. So I was just wondering if God was showing me this short notice opportunity in order to get me to take a leap of faith and not lean on my own understanding, or if He was using it to show me my eventual destination, or if He was just using it wake me up and stop being so complacent in leading my family. Notwithstanding, as I write this note to you, I sense God helping me work through the fog of my own trigger-happy, all or nothing, anxious thinking. I am confident that he will guide my path. Thanks for your input. Yours in Christ, Jman |