Isaiah 55:11- "So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."
I recently have been praying and thinking about my future a little more, especially about my future in earning money and providing for a family. As I sought council for these things, someone suggested to me that I take a personality test to get some ideas that might be compatible for me. I took them up on the idea. This post really isn't about careers, but its about the work of God.
Its a funny thing, how the Lord can completely change a person without them knowing it. He knows exactly what He is doing. I began taking this test, that I really don't like to take. It asks you a multiple choice question, and often the answers mean the same thing to me, so it can be difficult to pick just one answer. As I went though, I began to see something a little more clear, many of my answers have changed. I could remember taking a similar test in high school, and I noticed how so many of my answers would have been the exact opposite just four years ago. Some of my anwsers then would have been mostly made out of confusion of who I was, and my idea of who I was was not really me, but a mix of someone I thought I should be and who the world had convinced me I was supposed to be. Neither were accurate, or worthy of one who's life was Christ's. My identity was something that was so easily shaken, the slightest wind of word out of another's mouth could move my whole life. Somewhere along the way, though, I gave my life fully to Christ, and somewhere along the way He broke me. Somewhere along this path He revealed Himself to me. Somewhere He formed me. Somewhere He unclogged my emotions and my ability to express myself, and somewhere He used that to flow His Spirit out from inside of me. Somewhere along this path He shattered the mess that I made and the world made, and He formed me into a man found in Him. I don't know where these things happened, and actually I'm sure they've been happening daily since the day I was born, and I'm sure He is still deeply at work with in me every moment. I don't always realize how amazingly He is working in me, but I see now a little more how He always is and always has.
As I took the test today, I saw that my answers were not shaky, not guessingly based on how I wanted to be. They were precise, they were confident, and they were all based not on high ideas, but only on who the Lord is in me. All I can do is smile. He has done a work in me, just as He is doing a work in you, and as he forms us how he wants, he puts us into places where we can be pieced together, and become the body of our Lord. Its an amazing thing, far beyond anything we can think or imagine, and it doesn't always make sense, and its often hard, but He is always working my friends, He is always at work within us. Be encouraged, and trust in His love, I love you all as well, because God's in me, and He is in you, and He is love. Talk to you guys soon.
1 comment:
I'm a little younger than you in both spirit and body. I'm barely starting to see this. I'm standing by faith that he is, and praying that he reveals more of what he's doing.
Good post!
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