I've been in this boat since December. What makes it even harder is whenever you have someone else in your life that you need to consider whenever you make decisions, so you can't just do whatever is the best for you. I always imagined finding a job in Dallas after I graduated from college and living near my family, which has always been what Cody (my fiance) has planned as well. But life is funny sometimes.
Sometimes, your plan for your life and God's plan for your life aren't the same thing. I began to discover this fact during my last semester in school. The whole semester, I had been applying to jobs in Dallas and going on interviews. Each interview I had was excellent. The conversation was always good, all of the people were friendly, the jobs all sounded appealing to me and I was well qualified for them. The only bad thing, and I am convinced that this is why I didn't even receive one job offer from anyone in Dallas, is that God wanted me to go somewhere else. Right about the time that I heard from the last person I had interviewed with that they had decided to go with someone else, I learned that Cody had only received one interview for Physician Assistant school in Galveston, TX.
So I thought that God must have known that we would be heading down south, and that's why he didn't give me job offers here. Now, here we are about four months later and I finally get an offer for a great job in Houston, only to find out that Cody didn't get accepted to his program this year.
Nothing ever works out the way we plan. But maybe that's for the best. I think that we always try to rush into things. Cody is trying to rush into PA school, I was trying to rush to find a job, people rush into marriages all the time.
I was thinking the other day about what my life would have been like if I had started a new job right after I graduated college. I wouldn't have been able to go to my home church and hear the series about living like a radical Christian that taught me so much. I wouldn't have started reading my Bible again like I've been doing. Me and Cody wouldn't have had the opportunity to go and talk to the pastor at church about getting ready for marriage. I wouldn't have had time to rest and recover from the past 20 + years of school that I just finished.
And I'm still so young! I'm only 23 years old. I have my whole life ahead of me to spend working and making a living.
God is so good! I've been working a lot lately on letting him be the one to provide for me and not getting caught up in worrying about the future. I've always been a sort of materialistic person, but in these past few months, I've realized that some things just aren't that important. What is important is to realize that all of our belongings on this Earth don't even belong to us! They belong to the Lord. I came across a Bible verse the other day which drove this point home for me personally. The verse is 1 Timothy 6:7 "For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it." So why does having the most expensive sports car matter so much? Why does it matter to have the most expensive clothes or shoes? I've asked myself this question a lot lately.
Everyone is always trying to figure out their purpose on this earth. It may be true that everyone has their own unique purpose, but I feel like as Christians, we should know from day one what our purpose is: To bring God glory, and to show others His glory! As I start my new job, I don't want my life to be consumed by all the new things that I'll be able to afford, or how to make myself look better to other people. I've set a goal for myself, and I've talked it over with Cody since we will be married soon. We are going to give away 10% of our paycheck each month to the church.
I challenge anyone out there who happens to read this in the future to make a sacrifice for the Lord this week. Start out with something small, like sacrificing some of your time to help serve the community, or donate some old clothing to a homeless shelter.
The point is to do something to serve the Lord! Because he is good, and he provides for us and loves us and he wants us to bring him glory!
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