Jeremiah 7:23 "Obey me and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you that it may go well with you."
Obedience to God's commands can sometimes make you look like a fool to people of the world. I think that's why so many prudent people struggle so much with obedience to God. It's often crazy, radical things that logical people just wouldn't do that God asks you to do.
For me, it's to voluntarily take a severance package in this economy. Some people would do that in a heartbeat because they don't like to work but for me. . . I'm out of my comfort zone and it doesn't seem the logical thing to do. I have somewhat reluctantly accepted that I have a calling to teach. I don't know why I am so stubborn. Others have seen it for a long time, but I have been somewhat slower to it but now I see it and I am embracing it. So I'm leaving my career, I do not have a teaching job, I don't even quite have a license to teach yet but I will take this walk in obedience. I have no idea where we will end up or if I'll even get a teaching job this time around but I just have to have faith that I'm moving in the direction God is wanting me to move in.
I see this summer off with my family as a blessing. We need some time to be together and have less stress in our day to day lives. I will daily have to remind myself to not get anxious about the tomorrow's ahead. A lot of the time our answers do not come until the last possible minute so I might as well enjoy each day and do what I can each day but to not let worry take root in me!
Obedience to God's commands can sometimes make you look like a fool to people of the world. I think that's why so many prudent people struggle so much with obedience to God. It's often crazy, radical things that logical people just wouldn't do that God asks you to do.
For me, it's to voluntarily take a severance package in this economy. Some people would do that in a heartbeat because they don't like to work but for me. . . I'm out of my comfort zone and it doesn't seem the logical thing to do. I have somewhat reluctantly accepted that I have a calling to teach. I don't know why I am so stubborn. Others have seen it for a long time, but I have been somewhat slower to it but now I see it and I am embracing it. So I'm leaving my career, I do not have a teaching job, I don't even quite have a license to teach yet but I will take this walk in obedience. I have no idea where we will end up or if I'll even get a teaching job this time around but I just have to have faith that I'm moving in the direction God is wanting me to move in.
I see this summer off with my family as a blessing. We need some time to be together and have less stress in our day to day lives. I will daily have to remind myself to not get anxious about the tomorrow's ahead. A lot of the time our answers do not come until the last possible minute so I might as well enjoy each day and do what I can each day but to not let worry take root in me!
