Okay, so I have to reminisce and finish my last post. I ended up with two very promising job interviews, and second interviews with both organizations. I was offered a job at one and was pretty much assured a job at the other. I was all set to start job #1 on a Tuesday, and the Wednesday before, received a phone call asking if I could speak at a church to Jr. High students that Sunday. I accepted and began preparing my first sermon in nearly 6 months. On that Friday, I got a call from job #1 telling me that they had rescinded their offer. It hurt a bit, but I still had job #2 in my back pocket.
Saturday morning I woke up, and in usual fashion, I grabbed my phone before I got out of bed, and checked my emails. Wouldn’t you now it, but job #2 was doing corporate cutbacks, and the job they were preparing to offer me was no longer open. So I went from 2 very promising jobs to nothing in less than 24 hours. I was a bit crushed. I have never struggled with having to be the bread winner or the man that has to make more money than his wife, but not being able to secure these jobs was a bit of a blow.
So Sunday I preached, and I loved it. I knew what I was created to do, and jobs #1 and #2 were not it. I knew I was supposed to be in church work again, and that was what I needed to realize it. I was no longer upset at all about not getting a job, but now driven to do what it took to be in ministry once again.
And God opened that door. The very church I spoke at that January morning ended up hiring me in May. It was and is God’s provision for me. Sometimes He doesn’t tell us the whole story, but lets us live it out to see Him in the middle of it all when we stand and look back.
2011 has been a great year. I have been stretched in ways I wasn’t expecting, and I have sacrificed and God has blessed me.
And now, as I look forward to 2012, I have vision. And I am excited for what the future holds.
It is one thing to say, “God, I will do anything for you,” but it is a whole other thing to actually do it. While it may not be a big step for someone to apply for a job that they aren’t passionate about, it was for me. And it was what God required of me. I laid it down, and God picked it back up and gave it back to me in a bigger and better way.
It reminds me of the book, The Dream Giver, by Bruce Wilkinson. There is a point where the guy with the dream comes to a great river and has to set his dream down. Reluctantly, he does and gets in the boat and crosses the river, hope shattered. But there on the other side is his dream.
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