A Breif Hiatus
I have taken a little over a week off from posting to really think about what direction I want to take with this blog. It is fair to say that as someone who graduated with a teaching degree in December and as of yet has no leads on finding a teaching job, I do a lot of thinking about my future. What many would find strange is that I am not thinking about finding a teaching job, or any other type of job, but what is God’s calling and mandate on my life. While I am concerned about finding a job, I also KNOW that God will provide the right job in HIS time, which is not always when I want it.
While seeking God’s call, I have decided to implement some other disciplines into my life. I am finishing each day off in prayer, thanking God for the blessings in my life, the people he has put in my life, and asking for His wisdom to understand the lessons He wants me to learn from each day. I am also implementing more prayer in my daily activities, such as walking through the grocery store shopping and praying for the people that come to my mind. Today it was my friend Brenton that I haven’t seen in a while and his family. I am also going to commit to working out daily for at least half an hour. I am working on determining the exercises I will use, but anything is better than the nothing I have been doing. I am cutting out a lot of the TV I have watched in the past, and will only watch a few shows per week, and work on reading and focusing on God instead.
I am somewhat worried, and concerned that I might not make it as I plan, but I want to seriously make some changes and Clean out My Temple of the junk and filth that has been holding me up as I am looking to serve God. Earlier today I had breakfast with one of the men from S.K.I.N. and during the conversation he mentioned how it is great we have a summer college ministry going, but that during most of the year the 18-25 age group is left out, and it has been stirring me all day. I mentioned to him that I might be able to try and start something like that up, and a few hours later when we were parting he told me to seriously consider it.
Right now is a time of prayer, and counting the cost. In Luke 14:25-35 Jesus talks of counting the cost and being prepared before building a structure or going to war. Do I have the time and resources needed to start something like this? Can I do this if I get the full-time position at work? Is this what I am being called to now? Really that last question is the answer to all of the other questions. If I am being called to start a ministry for the 18-20 somethings, God will provide the rest. The other question that my friend Tony talked about here is, am I willing to follow the call, or as Mark Batterson would put it, “Am I willing to chase a Lion?”
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