The other day I was sitting and imagining a person going to school, then college, spending a few years learning how to do one particular thing, then spending pretty much the rest of their life doing that same thing day after day.I imagined the feeling of living like that. Waking up early, going to work, coming back and being too tired to do anything worth doing. Mundane. Empty.
I thank the Lord that I never have to be one of those people.
There are many Christians who are called to spend time in higher education and go on to minister in every-day situations and regular jobs, and I love that! (sort of hope to be one of them too)
God is able to take a person into the world to do something they really enjoy in order to spread the Gospel!
My best friend is learning to be a Speech Therapist, and she's brilliant at it. God took her through college to show her something that she absolutely loved doing, and pairing that with the fact that she so loves and cares about the people God has created, He is able to use her to minister through her career!
That's so beautiful! And it is NOTHING like the mundane life the unsaved.
This year I thought I would be going to college to pursue a career.
Instead, all of a sudden, God put Cambodia in my path. Now I have no idea about the future after Cambodia. I'm there for four months, then after that....only God knows. And its EXCITING!
College is not out of the question now, its just possibly pushed back a year, but the thing is, I don't know yet. God might take me to college next year, or He might give me the desire to be a full-time missionary when I'm in Cambodia, OR something completely and utterly different might happen. Whatever it is though, it will be perfect for me!
I just thank the Lord that I have flexibility in my life. That I am no longer part of the world that believes you have to spend half of your life in education to get a good job, almost another half working your behind off trying to make money to have a good retirement, and a very short amount of time either trying to enjoy a quiet life with your 3rd spouse who happened to have a bit of money saved up to live off, or doing nothing because you worked and worked until your body failed you, trying and failing to get enough money to do something exciting, and then you die, nothing after, zippo, zilch, squat...just..dust in the ground.
I thank the Lord that I am part of a world in which I get the privilege to love Him, and to serve and glorify Him in whatever I do. That He knows each of my likes and dislikes, my strengths and weaknesses, and has planned each aspect of my life accordingly so that I may be rich in the kingdom of God. I get to spend my life doing so many different and exciting things with and for the Almighty God, then leave this body and live on in perfection forever.
Its high time we put our lives in perspective.
We get caught up in the dramas, the emotions, the events, the "problems", the ups and downs of our lives.
But nothing, not one single part of it, truly matters except Jesus.
And He has a future and a hope for all of us.
