God's way, or Our way?
Let go, and let God... This is something that rang in my mind after reading it on some website somewhere... Do we really let God show us the way to go, and we follow the way God leads, or do we actually engineer the way we want to go, and think that that is what God wants us to do?
In some way, if we think logically, both seem to be true, but in actual fact, God does have a plan for our lives, and He does have a path for us to go. Freedom of choice is but a fragment of our imagination, and whichever way we choose, God's way or our way, God still has the final say in things, and I believe that He will bless whichever way we choose (unless it delibrately goes against His doctrine).
How do we figure/distinguish/decipher/delibrate/discern His way, should be thru PRAYER... We should live a lifestyle of asking the Holy Spirit for directions, and go where the Spirit leads us. Whichever way we go, as long as the Spirit is with us, we will not go wrong.
I recently had to choose between working for church, or preparing my resume and submitting it to a dozen different companies to try to get a higher-paying job. The choice is simple, to try to challenge a few hundred other people contending for a decent IT job, or to just go and see how God can use me by working for church (and possibly earning a much lower pay than market rate).
As it is, I chose to work for church for now, and the first day I was on my way to work, an ex-colleague in my army camp gave me a sms, I called him back, and he told me that there's a $3000-5000 budgeted paying job in his wife's company that I might be interested in. Its an IT administrator job, involves "babysitting" their server which links to a foreign server, and making sure that all systems go. And he told me that the local boss of the company is a Christian, and that I should just try and send in my resume and see if I get the job. Should I try for it, or is it a ploy from satan?
My dad thinks that working for church is working for charity... I feel like telling him that I am working for A charity, and not working for charity, but somehow I'm prevented from doing so. Right now, I go to work 3 times a week (tue-thu), and am drawing a lower-than-expected pay, but I feel that God wants me here for a purpose, and I'm not about to give it up.
Is this God's will for me, or is it satan's lies again telling me to do opposite of what God wants me to do? ArRrRgH!!! How difficult is it to decide? After much deliberation, I decided not to send in my resume to my ex-colleague's wife, as I don't think I want to do it.
I pray that God will keep me in his courts, under the protection of his arms, and send me into battle when He needs me, but nourish and nurture me when I'm not in battle... God... Help me, I need you daily!
I can go on and on, but I don't think I'm going anywhere, so this is it for now...
posted by Melvin Chia at 1:41 am
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