It's so hard, at least for me, to figure out what God wants me to do with my life. I, sometimes, wish that he would just come to me in a dream or a vision or an angel...ANYTHING!!!
That seems like it would make it soooo much easier
I can say, I'm just being patient to hear what God wants for me...I'm trying that...it doesn't seem to be working
Maybe I'm not fully opening up to Him...maybe I'm sticking to my own agenda and not trying to follow His...I keep praying for Him to show me His will, His plan, His agenda for my life
God is a HUGE God and I'll praise and worship Him all my life...I know his plan is perfect and His will for me is awesome!! I just wanna know sooner than He wants to tell me
Please pray for me, that'll I'll stay patient and keep loving God and love the way he does things
And...If you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated...Thanks
Peace
Oh...if your wondering what this is regarding, it's regarding, I guess, a few different things, but mostly school and what God wants to do with my life, in that area
That seems like it would make it soooo much easier
I can say, I'm just being patient to hear what God wants for me...I'm trying that...it doesn't seem to be working
Maybe I'm not fully opening up to Him...maybe I'm sticking to my own agenda and not trying to follow His...I keep praying for Him to show me His will, His plan, His agenda for my life
God is a HUGE God and I'll praise and worship Him all my life...I know his plan is perfect and His will for me is awesome!! I just wanna know sooner than He wants to tell me
Please pray for me, that'll I'll stay patient and keep loving God and love the way he does things
And...If you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated...Thanks
Peace
Oh...if your wondering what this is regarding, it's regarding, I guess, a few different things, but mostly school and what God wants to do with my life, in that area
5 comments:
Andrew,
Once I found myself in the same position, when we were thinking about moving from San Clemente to Temecula. I wanted to stay at the beach, Wendy wanted to move. We prayed about it, with no clear answer over a period of time. I was wondering, does God want us to move? I told Wendy once, why doesn't give us an absolute sign; like a letter in the mail reading "Steve Caress you should move". One day I mentioned to one of our friends that I didn't know if God wanted us to move. And he told me something to the effect of "God doesn't care where you live. He can use you wherever you are." Talk about humbling and liberating. I look back, and I had this attitude like "I'm so important. God might need me to stay here." It's not that God doesn't care where we live, what we do for a living, our hobbies, etc. It's that those are such insignificant details when looking at His master plan.
One thing you can be sure is that whatever career path you take, (assuming it's not some immoral path), God will bless it, and you'll get a job in a place where you'll meet people who need to hear God's plan of redemption.
I was reading Psalm 91 this morning. Look at the benefits of making God your dwelling.
I could post more, but I don't want my comment to be longer than your blog (kidding).
Steve
My whole point was, don't worry about whether or not choosing to be, say, an architect instead of a business analyst is God's plan for your life. If God really doesn't want you doing something, He'll shut some doors.
I'm not sure that came across in my first comment.
See told you, longer than your original post (kidding).
Steve
Yeah, that makes alot of sense, I was wondering all this cause I did feel like the doors to becoming an engineer were being shut (even though I think an engineer would be awesome). For example, it's gonna take at least 3 extra years of school (not too bad though) but it'll take at least a year of almost all A's at the community college even before I can get into the engineering school (I know my gpa is my fault), it just seems like those doors are being shut, but maybe it's God trying to get me to work harder, I don't know...
Steve beat me to it... God can use you anywhere, and I am confident that He will use you anywhere.
Like you, I have wished any number of times that God would just call down with a loud voice from Heaven and say, "Go thou here, do thou that, and verily, I will bless thee, and thou wilt know that thou art in My will!" But He rarely seems to do that. I've always said in some ways, Jonah had it easy... he got a direct instruction from God that he could say either yes or no to!
But you don't have to look much farther than Abraham to see that a lot of times, God doesn't even give direction of the sort we'd want to some of the most amazing people in the Bible. You know Abraham's lofty place in the Pantheon of Patriarchs (as it were), but even he was told, not "Go from here to this specific place," but "go to the land which I will show you" (Genesis 12:1). Basically, "Leave your home, your town, your relatives, everything you know, and go that way!" You can't get much more vague than that.
I don't know if you'll eventually be a CPA, an aeronautical engineer, or an overseas missionary using aspects of all the above (I don't know if you've considered that, but your desire to follow Jesus, your affinity for foreign travel, and your love for people is an interesting combination). But I do know that He can use you no matter where you are and what you're doing. And if you are keeping your eyes on Him, I think you will be content that He is pleased with you, and that you're doing exactly what He wants you to be, wherever you land. But I will be praying for you—I know career path is often a lot to ponder.
Now I'm going to shaddap before my comment is longer than your original and Steve's put together. But I'm probably already too late.
Pax Domine,
Tedd
God is never late or early in revealing His will because He is perfect, so you'll find contentment in Him when you trust that He's gives us Today- ONE DAY AT A TIME (Hebrews 4:7). Also, Isaiah 30:21 says
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk it it."
Turning to the right or left in the Bible equates to steering away from God's way, or in actuality to taking our eyes off Jesus for He IS the way (path) (John 14:6), and this verse in Isaih tells us that if we do choose the wrong path we'll hear Him speak the exact direction to go in.
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